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Pope Gregory Ⅶ reformed main political bodies. He aimed to abolish Simony and tried to destroy Nicolisim that is the family life of the clergy. Also Gregory Ⅶ prohibited lay investiture, the crucial measure which would free the Church from lay control. He was trying to enforce the established law. However emperor Henry Ⅳ's opposition to this reform programme provoked the Investiture Contest. First, I think that Investiture Contest have occurred, while pope Gregory Ⅶ had accomplished the church reform programs based on establishing papal government. As Gregory Ⅶ have maintained bishops investiture, he wanted to be a reform leader as pope. Second, Gregory Ⅶ proposed to take a vision that pope should have absoulte power and sovereign authority politic as well as religion parts in the Christian society (societas christiana.). The function of the pope was that of a true monarch, governing the community that was entrusted to him. As a result, this papal government system was an example of church government. Third, it seems that Gregory Ⅶ's theories of papal sovereignty had revealed limit. While pope had struggled emperor Henry Ⅳ, Holy Roman Empire was splitted two popes and two kings. As its conditions had developed very complicated. papal universal power had reduced. Fourth, pope Gregory Ⅶ's reform movement had ,nonetheless, contributed development of medieval political culture. As a result, pope Gregory Ⅶ proposed new vision of Western Europe society in the eleventh century.