He has ruined the Church--he has distracted the State; he has embittered the life of a _pious and peaceful_ monarch, upheld a perjured rebel, and scattered everywhere discord, jealousy, and adultery.

For this, here in final council at Mayence, we have resolved to depose, expel, and, if he disobey our command, to doom to eternal condemnation a monster who preaches the pillaging of churches and assassination, who abets perjury and homicide, who denies the Catholic and Apostolic faith concerning the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ--this accursed Hildebrand, this ancient ally of the heretic Berengarius, this conjurer and magician, this necromancer, this monk possessed by a devil, this vile apostate from the faith of our fathers." After this violent invective had been launched, Guibert of Ravenna was unanimously elected anti-pope, under the name of Clement III.

Henry next addressed himself to win the support of England; but Cardinal Lanfranc condemned his precipitation, and refused to unite in these insults and outrages.
The brief respite from arms that followed the battle of Fladenheim was over.

Hostilities had commenced.

Cries of war were heard from every quarter, and while the two kings were mustering their strength for another great struggle, the partisans of Rodolph and Henry were daily mingling in deadly strife.