After the meeting in Normandy the Germans followed Henry back across the sea to England, where, although received with due formal honours, they were treated coldly by the English court because of their association with the imperial antipope. Several "undiplomatic" incidents occurred, including the ritual cleansing of altars where they had celebrated mass. and the refusal by one of king Henry's senior barons, the Earl of Leicester, chief justiciar of the kingdom, to give Rainald the kiss of peace. The imperial mission returned back to Germany together with two of King Henry's most trusted envoys and representatives, John of Oxford and Richard of Ilchester. After he got back Rainald was full of boasts that he had won over Henry to the antipapal cause, and who would bring with him more than fifty bishops from his vast domains
At Whitsuntide, May 24th 1165 a grand Imperial Diet was summoned by Frederick Barbarossa to Wurzburg, There Rainald of Cologne proposed that Frederick should swear publicly on oath that he would never give recognition to Alexander as Pope, but that he would only recognise, Paschal III [Guy of Crema, the second antipope] as Pope. Frederick agreed to do this and swore this on behalf of both himself and his successors The same oath was also exacted from Frederick's prelates and the princes of his empire. Included in this oath, according to documents published by Frederick, and also in a letter sent to one of Becket’s agents, it was said that the English envoys John of Oxford and Richard of Ilchester had also subscribed their master’s name to this oath, although Henry afterwards claimed he was never party to or bound by his envoys actions, and he never personally issued an official denial, thought it seems that he did force Rotrou, archbishop of Rouen to send a letter to Pope Alexander's curia that he had not given any kind of oath of support to the emperor's antipope Paschal III.
The oath given by Henry's legates to Frederick at the Diet of Wurzburg 1165 was recorded thus
Ad hæc honorabiles Legati illustris amici nostri Henrici , gloriosi Anglorum Regis, ad nos ab ipso transmissi , in totius Curia: nostra præsentia super sanctorum Reliquias ex parte Regis Angliæ publice juraverunt nobis , quod Rex ipfe cum toto Regno suo in parte nostra fideliter stabit: Dominum Paschalem , quem nos tenemos, nobiscum semper tenebit .
At these words the most illustrious ambassadors of our friend of Henry, the glorious King of the English, sent to us by him, before and in the presence of the whole court did publicly swear to us upon the relics of the saints that the King of England, the King himself, on his part, would faithfully, and together with the whole of his kingdom that he shall stand with the Lord Paschal, and would hold to this with us. ...
Henry's denial is recorded in
Materials for the History of Thomas Becket, Volume 5 p. 194 MTB Epistola 101 July 1st 1165
The original plan to match a daughter of Henry II with the eldest son of Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, was abandoned as this son died in childhood. Matilda, however, left England in September 1167 to proceed with the arranged marriage to Henry the Lion of Saxony.
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