I’m doing a board game on the Middle Ages for history class, and I want to include the Investiture Controversy. One problem… I have no idea what it was, and the explanations online are all really inaccessible. Help!
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Investiture just means appointment. In the case of the investiture controversy, it was a conflict about who got to appoint people to official position in the Catholic church such as bishops. At the time, ruling Kings and other lords would appoint people to these positions within their realms. In the 11th and 12th centuries, a series of popes began to assert that only the church had the authority to appoint people to positions within the church. The kings and nobles of Europe insisted that only they had the right to appoint people to positions in their realms. The conflict was settled in 1122 with the church largely winning.
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