The dispute was temporarily resolved in 1071 after Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Thomas of Bayeux, Archbishop of York, submitted the matter in person to Pope Alexander II in Rome.
Thurstan thereupon successfully appealed to Pope Calixtus II, who not only himself consecrated him, but also gave him a Bull releasing him and his successors from the supremacy of Canterbury.
Each prelate was to carry his metropolitical cross in the province of the other, and if they were together their cross-bearers should walk abreast.
The Archbishop of York also undertook that each of his successors should send an image of gold to the shrine of St. Thomas of Canterbury.
With this pre-eminence of the Archbishop of Canterbury acknowledged by an Act of Parliament passed during the reign of Henry VIII,[1] this status quo lasts to this day.