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According to some commentators he had some 70,000 people executed and looted the monasteries and other religious houses of money and land! He extorted money from the Church and sustained an accident in a joust, which unfortunately didn't kill him. but appears to have had deleterious affects on his mental state and caused obesity! He obtained an annulment from his first wife and having five others had two executed!

One of the things he did was to point out that the pope's activities were illegal and were against the teachings of the Ecumenical Councils, especially the Council of Nicaea. This caused the Pope to sever communion with Henry but left him a catholic prince!

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