The pope who fought to establish the supremacy of the pope over the Church and the supremacy of the Church over the state (1020-1085)

Usage examples of hildebrand.

Then their talk turned to minstrelsy, and the stranger knight drew forth a cittern, upon which he played the minne-lieder of the north, singing the while in a high cracked voice of Hildebrand and Brunhild and Siegfried, and all the strength and beauty of the land of Almain.

Walter had listened with a beating heart, now full of hope that he was to be Hildebrand to this Undine, now sick with the conviction that he was destined to fare no better than Sefton.

A North-sea pilot, Hildebrand yclept, A sturdy and a briny, once men knew.

If anything was urgently in need of reformation it was this, and it had its ardent reformer in Cardinal Hildebrand, the most skilful politician in the Vatican.

William and Lanfranc had made with Hildebrand and the Pope had been more successful than they could have foreseen.

He had been a close colleague of Hildebrand: they had battled together against a powerful heresy that denied Transsubstantiation.

He will, as usual, find some instruction in Le Clerc, (Vie de Hildebrand, Bibliot, ancienne et moderne, tom.

Several grave gentlemen were already set to scientific whist, but most were gathered round the hazard table, where Sir Hildebrand himself held the bank.

It would be hard to imagine how I could have done so during the time I have been in this inn, and as for the one night at Kimbolton, your granddaughter, General, passed as my ward, as Hildebrand has already told you.

Hildebrand, I do hope to goodness he doesn't still wish to inform against you?