Editing Pope Urban II (section)

=== Sicily ===
Urban received vital support in his conflict with the [[Byzantine Empire]], Romans and the [[Holy Roman Empire]] from the [[Italo-Normans|Norman]] of [[Campania]] and [[Sicily]]. In return he granted [[Roger I of Sicily|Roger I]] the freedom to appoint bishops (the right of [[Investiture#Ecclesiastical usage|lay investiture]]), to collect Church revenues before forwarding to the papacy, and the right to sit in judgment on ecclesiastical questions.{{sfn|Loud|2013|pp=231-232}} Roger I virtually became a [[Papal legate|legate]] of the Pope within Sicily.{{sfn|Matthew|1992|p=28}} In 1098 these were extraordinary prerogatives that Popes were withholding from temporal sovereigns elsewhere in Europe and that later led to bitter confrontations with Roger's [[Hohenstaufen]] heirs.