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Mar 15, 2024 · John XII was the pope from 955 to 964. He was the only son of Duke Alberic II of Spoleto, then ruler of Rome, who ordered Octavian’s election (Dec. 16, 955) as pope when he was only about 18 years of age. The young pope changed his name to John (becoming only the second pope in history to change
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May 10, 2022 · On being elected pope, Octavian began using the regnal name “John” instead— “John XII” to be exact, (to avoid confusion with the 11 preceding Johns to hold the office). John’s first order of business was to head to Beneventum and Capua on a campaign to reclaim territories which were taken from the Papal States by the Germanic Lombards.
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Includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, Church Fathers, Summa, Bible and more — all for only $19.99... Date of birth unknown; reigned 955-64. The younger Alberic, after the downfall of his mother, Marozia (932), was absolute ruler at Rome. Before his death he administered an oath (954) to the Roman nobles in St. Peter's, that on the next vacancy ...
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The earliest recorded defenestration is found in the Tanakh, the Hebrew Bible, and has been dated to c.842 BCE. Jezebel was the daughter of the King of Tyre and became Queen of Israel by marrying King Ahab. Attempting to install the gods of her home country, Jezebel purged all the prophets of Yahweh, the Hebrew God, from Israel. These included the ...
Whilst the story of Jezebel is open to religious interpretation and myth-making, other examples of royalty suffering or ordering defenestration are available. Indeed, ordering someone thrown through a window was a quick and easy way to be rid of a potential rival for medieval kings. According to some chronicles, especially the Annals of Westhide, K...
Rulers weren’t the only ones who saw defenestration as a way of removing unwanted politicians and rivals, throwing people out of windows was often a familiar sight during public uprisings or protests. In 1378, the craftsmen of the Flemish city of Leuven rose up against the city’s patrician rulers and occupied the town hall. Most of the patricians f...
There is one place that truly deserves the epithet of the spiritual home of defenestration, the Czech (though in these cases Bohemian) capitol city of Prague, which has seen four defenestrations in its history. The First Defenestration of Prague occurred in 1419. Early fifteenth-century Prague was a hotbed of discontent at the direction of the chur...
But it was Prague’s third defenestration, confusingly called the Second Defenestration of Prague, in 1618 that is perhaps the most famous, if not the most important, defenestration in history. The Peace of Augsburg in 1555 had solved the Holy Roman Empire’s empire’s Catholic-Protestant religious deadlock by creating the principle of cuius regio, ei...
Defenestration is not something confined to the pre-modern era, however. Unfortunately, people were throwing each other out of windows long into the twentieth century, and usually for the same political or Machiavellian reasons as before. Jan Masaryk was a foreign minister of Czechoslovakia following the country’s liberation in 1945 under a Nationa...
Whilst the thought of someone falling through a window and plummeting to their death or serious injury is horrific, there are some instances that cannot help but make us laugh or smile, however dark the incident actually was. Garry How was a successful Toronto attorney at the great Canadian legal firm, Holden Day Wilson. Working at the Toronto-Domi...
Pope John XII is one of the more controversial popes in the entire history of the Catholic faith. He served as the 130th pope and was the 12th pope to name himself John. Born Octavianus, he was was one of the youngest popes ever elected, believed to be around 18 years old when he took up the post. His papacy was characterized by licentious ...
JOHN XII, POPE. Pontificate: Dec. 16, 955 to May 14, 964; b. Rome, c. 936. Before his death in 954, Alberic II of Spoleto, the undisputed master of Rome, made the nobles swear to elect his only son, Octavian, to the papacy at the death of Agapetus II. As pope, Octavian changed his name to John. Even if this immature pontiff, scarcely 18, were ...
The Holy See Pontiffs John XII [ AR - DE - EN ... John XII 130th Pope of the Catholic Church Beginning Pontificate: 16.XII.955: End Pontificate: 14.V.964:
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