Er bemerkte nicht, daß er durch diese Entschließung sich selbst Freunde und Anhänger nahm, und den Papst erhob, da er diesem zu seinem so kräftigen geistlichen Ansehen noch so viel weltliche Macht gab.
It never occurred to him that by this action he was weakening himself, depriving himself of friends and of those who had thrown themselves into his lap, whilst he aggrandized the Church by adding much temporal power to the spiritual, thus giving it greater authority.