Denier

The Bishopric of Worms occupied an acutely contested position during this precise period — the Investiture Controversy had only been settled by the Concordat of Worms in 1122, a compromise hammered out in the city itself that ended decades of warfare between the papacy and the Holy Roman Emperor over the right to appoint clergy. The bishop's authority to strike coin was among the temporal privileges at the heart of that dispute. This denier belongs to the generation immediately following that settlement, issued by a see still reasserting its rights.