He went to Rome in 1209 to propose to Pope Innocent III a plan for a new form of Christian life, Benedict said.

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Pope Gregory VII may have humiliated the Emperor Henry IV, as Innocent III later humiliated Philip Augustus of France and King John of England.

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Pope Innocent III who, by 1215, had made a name for himself in attempts to ensure secular leaders were subject to religious jurisdiction, annulled the document within months of it being issued.

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