... rejected the devil, and in doing so showed that he had complete authority and that the devil had complete power. Here Gregory is likening himself to Christ, showing how much he was above these petty affairs. Manegold believed firmly that kingship was just an office, to which a straight equivocation with the hierarchy in the church was to apply. Manegold formed his argument around a central attack upon the general belief that the crown itself and its wearer were one and the same, inseparable. Manegold's opinion was such that if the King failed to perform the set tasks that were expected of him as king, he forfeited his crown because he had made a pact with society that he had failed to honour. Despite Gregory's references to Manegold's work in some of his letters Manegold's consistent view that temporal power was consistent, it is shown in Leyser's The Polemics ...

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