After the departure of Henry from Rome…

After the departure of Henry from Rome in 1111, a council had declared the privilege of lay investiture, which had been extorted from Paschal, to be invalid.

Guido of Vienne, a son of Count William I of Burgundy, had been appointed archbishop of Vienne, in Lower Burgundy, in 1088, becoming well known as a spokesman of a reform party within the church and as a foe of the policy of the Holy Roman emperor Henry V. With kin both in Burgundy and the Franche Comté that is within the Emperor's jurisdiction and bordering it, Guido, the future Pope Calixtus II, leads the pro-Papal opposition at the synod called at the Lateran in 1112.