The house was strongly guarded.

Round the limits of the protected district sentinels paced the rounds day and night, as on the walls of a fortress.

The Pope was unmoved.

"They trust," he cried, "in chariots and in horses; but we will remember the name of the Lord our God." He betook him vigorously to his spiritual weapons, and laid the region garrisoned by the French under an interdict.

[451] This dispute was at the height when another dispute arose, in which the Germanic body was as deeply concerned as the Pope.
Cologne and the surrounding district were governed by an Archbishop, who was an Elector of the Empire.