Also, much is made of his supposed descent from the Counts of Canossa, although this belief of Michelangelo's was utterly unfounded.
With some other excommunicated bishops, Benno hastened to Italy, where the pope freed them from the ban at Canossa, before Henry himself arrived there.
King Henry obtained absolution at Canossa in January 1077; and Burchard, who accompanied him on the penitential pilgrimage, was reinstated in office.
The Walk to Canossa is sometimes used as a symbol of the changing relationship between the medieval Church and State.
In 2011, he walked from Hamburg to Canossa, Italy, following in the historical footsteps of Emperor Henry IV.
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His notable works include the bestsellers With 80,000 questions around the world, Walk to Canossa and the German TV series Mit 80,000 Fragen um die Welt.
Donizo (also Domnizo, Donizone) of Canossa, was an Italian monk in the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries.
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The Life is divided into two books, the first of which entitled, De Principibus Canusinis (‘On the princes of Canossa’), concentrates on the ancestors of Matilda of Tuscany, and their possession of the castle of Canossa; the second book focuses on Matilda herself.
In 1077 he traveled to Canossa in northern Italy to meet the pope and apologize in person.
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As penance for his sins, and echoing his own punishment of the Saxons after the First Battle of Langensalza, he dramatically wore a hairshirt and stood in the snow barefoot in the middle of winter in what has become known as the Walk to Canossa.
The abbey was founded in 1007 by Tedald, count of Canossa, the paternal grandfather of Matilda of Canossa, countess of Tuscany, with a grant to the Benedictine monks, of half his land lying between the rivers Po and Lirone, prompting the title "in Polirone".
In the end, Henry IV journeyed to Canossa in northern Italy in 1077 to do penance and to receive absolution from the pope.
Tedald (died 1012), of the House of Canossa, was the count of Brescia from 980, Modena, Ferrara, and Reggio from 981, and Mantua from 1006.
The term Walk to Canossa (German, Gang nach Canossa), sometimes called the Humiliation of Canossa (Italian, l'umiliazione di Canossa), refers to the trek of Henry IV of the Holy Roman Empire from Speyer to the fortress at Canossa in Emilia Romagna to obtain the revocation of the excommunication imposed on him by the Pope Gregory VII.
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Also notable are his plans for the Villa Bettoni at Bogliaco near Gargnano, for the Villa Mosconi Bertani and the Villa Bertani at Novare di Arbizzano, for the Villa Canossa at Grezzano and for the Villa Vecelli Cavriani di Mozzecane.
Castiglione wrote about his works and of those of other guests in letters to other princes, maintaining an activity very near to diplomacy, though in a literary form, as in his correspondence with his friend and kinsman, Ludovico da Canossa (later Bishop of Bayeux).
Boniface III, Margrave of Tuscany (c. 985 – May 6, 1052), father of Matilda of Canossa and the most powerful north Italian prince of his age
The details of the relations between Sigifred's sons Sigifred II and Adalbert Atto are unknown and the latter appears in Canossa in time to give refuge to Queen Adelaide when she was fleeing Berengar II and Willa in 955.
The king, having returned from Canossa, appointed Liutold instead, who had given him safe conduct through his Carinthian possessions on his way back to Germany.
On the other side, Canossa is remembered in Italy by Benedetto Croce as the first concrete victory after the fall of the Roman Empire of the Pope, who, for the 19th-century historian, represented the Italian people, against the domination of the Germans.