Observations on the Dead Emperor Collected from Annals and Laws

often died excommunicated by the Roman Pontiffs under anathema, by the Pope's order he was ejected from there and buried outside the city of Liège in a place called Mont Cornille. There he lay for some time, but afterwards his body was removed from there by the permission of the Pope and re-interred at Speyer. When Henry V, likewise bound by the curse of the Pontiff, had been defeated on the field of Welphesholz, Reinhard, the Bishop of Halberstadt, forbade communion of burial to those killed on the Emperor's side. CHRONICLE OF HALBERSTADT, in Leibniz, Vol. II of Brunswick history, p. 132.

Whether Henry VI?

Emperor Henry VI was excommunicated by Pope Celestine on account of the capture and ransom of Richard, King of England, and therefore the same Pope prohibited his body from being buried, although the Archbishop of Messina had prayed much for him. ROGER OF HOVEDEN, latter part of the English Annals, in the life of Richard at the year 1197, p. 773. But OTTO OF SAINT BLAISE, ch. 45, affirms that he was buried with royal dignity; but not, as he thinks, at Messina; much less at Naples, as is read in GODFREY OF COLOGNE at the year 1197, or at Speyer, which KÖNIGSHOFEN willed in ch. II of his Chronicle, § 172, and the Chronicle of Saint Giles, Vol. III of Brunswick history, Leibniz, p. 586; but at Palermo, as witnessed by CONRAD OF URSBERG, p. 305, and by Frederick II himself in his testament, ch. 24, Sicilian Chronicle, p. 15, Vol. III of the new Thesaurus Anecdotorum by Martène.

Lest Emperor Otto IV perhaps incur the same adverse fortune, he obtained as he was dying that he be freed from the papal curses. GODFREY OF COLOGNE and ALBERT OF STADE at the year 1218.

Louis the Bavarian was buried not without difficulty.

On account of the same papal thunderbolt, the Augustinian monks of Munich did not receive the remains of Louis the Bavarian, even though the Caesar while alive and the orders of the empire had fought bravely for their rights against the audacity of the Roman Pontiff. Cf. Imperial Constitution on the right of the kingdom and empire in Albericus de Rosate on law 3 of the Codex de quadrienn. praescript., and in PFEFFINGER in Vitriar. illustr., Vol. I, p. 667; hence they were carried into the church of the Virgin Mary.