Editing Pope Callixtus II (section)

==Archbishop of Vienne==
{{see also|Investiture Controversy}}
Guy first appears in contemporary records when he became the [[archbishop of Vienne]] in 1088. He held strong pro-papal views about the [[Investiture controversy]]. As archbishop, he was appointed [[papal legate]] to France by [[Pope Paschal II]] during the time that Paschal was induced under pressure from [[Holy Roman Emperor]] [[Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor|Henry V]] to issue the ''Privilegium'' of 1111, by which he yielded much of the papal prerogatives that had been so forcefully claimed by [[Pope Gregory VII]] in the [[Gregorian Reform]]s. These concessions were received with violent opposition and nowhere more so than in France, where the opposition was led by Archbishop Guy, who had attended the Lateran Synod of 1112.<ref name=MacCaffrey/>

On his return to France, he immediately convened an assembly of French and Burgundian bishops at Vienne, where the imperial claim to a traditional [[lay investiture]] of the clergy was denounced as [[Heresy|heretical]] and a sentence of [[excommunication]] was now pronounced against Henry V on the grounds that he had extorted the ''Privilegium'' from Paschal II by means of violence. The council called Pope Paschal a simpleton (''quod rex extorsit a vestra simplicitate'').<ref>Gregorovius, p. 359 with note 1.</ref> These decrees were sent to Paschal II with a request for a confirmation, which they received on 20 October 1112.<ref name="Stroll, 1124">Stroll,  ''Calixtus II (1119–1124): a pope born to rule'' (2004). {{page number needed|date=February 2020}}</ref><ref name=MacCaffrey/>