unleashed a foot to his and kaiser declan's into zones on a full of fog like you henry the 4th was an emperor who reigned in thought entirely in the tradition of his ancestors he viewed as monarchy as god given and inherited from his father's house in the flesh and that made him very unprepared for an ethical conflict which broke out in the 2nd half of the 11th century and which suddenly called the authority of the king into question as you. the king was viewed by the church reformers as a layman and no longer as one anointed by god or goddess. and that developed into a fundamental conflict around the question of which was to take precedence on earth the power of the church or the secular power as it does a conflict this conflict erupted in the so-called investiture controversy which was about much more than the investiture of bishops of would be fought was about the question of who needed whom the have you had precedence over who and who had to obey and was. henry the 4th didn't want to obey that was a tragedy but also his pride as a capable. father and he expressed this pride above