Middle+Ages+Letter

Dear Pope Gregory VII , I know that you excommunicated me and suspended me from the office, but I would really like to come back. I’m sorry that I fought over the imperial right to appoint or incest churchmen with their offices. I wish I had never hastily summoned a council of German bishops who declared you deposed. I would like to be back in the church and office. I think I have just taken my anger of not having a father and my mother being taken away from me as a child. I know when I met you at Canossa in northern Italy in 1077 you did not forgive me but I would like another chance to apologize. I led another army into Italy and marched on Rome and set up an antipope there who crowned him emperor. You were saved from capture only by a large Norman force, which rescued you at the cost of a severe plundering of the city of Rome itself. I know that you have not liked me because of my family and how they were rude to you. They should not have been mean to you because you excommunicated me and took me out of my office. Then again it’s not my fault that they did that. I should not be penalized for their mistakes. I would really like if you would let me back into the kingdom and let me go to the church, so I can have all my church services. Maybe I will find Christ and become a minister. If I do I will thank you for helping me and letting me come back. I hope you will consider what I have said. Sincerely, Henry IV