The vexed question of lay investiture of ecclesiastical estates threatened relations between Church and state in England for several years. Archbishop Anselm refused to do homage to the King for the archiepiscopal estates, claiming he held them from the Pope. The King would not give way and Anselm was deprived of his fiefs and again forced into exile. A compromise was reached in 1107 when the King Henry's sister Adela, Countess of Blois, suggested that the bishops should pay homage for fiefs held of the King, who in his turn would allow clerical investiture.