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Pope St Leo IX Quick Facts. Born – June 21, 1002. Birth Name – Bruno of Egisheim-Dagsburg. Died – April 19, 1054. How he died. Pope St Leo IX became a hostage to the Normans of the Kingdom of Sicily who held him in Benevento from June of 1053 A.D. through March of 1054 A.D. Though he was kept in so-called honorable captivity until he ...
Henry escaped, but died soon afterward. On December 8, 1075, Pope Gregory VII (ruled 1073–85), also known as Hildebrand, sent orders to Emperor Henry IV (ruled 1056–1106) that he should stop appointing bishops. Henry responded with a blistering letter, and Gregory in turn issued an order telling Henry's subjects that they were no longer ...
Henry IV, Gregory VII, and Countess Matilda at Canossa. Gregory VII met with vigorous opposition from the German clergy as well as from the king when he attempted to enforce his laws against simony and the marriage of the clergy. In a synod at Home, 1075, Feb. 24-28, Gregory excommunicated five of Henry’s intimate advisers for the sin of simony.
Pope Gregory VII condemned lay investiture in 1078 as an unjustified assertion of secular authority over the church; the issue was pivotal in his dispute with King Henry IV and in the larger struggle over Henry’s refusal to obey papal commands. Henry successfully drove Gregory from Rome and installed an antipope, but it would be Gregory’s ...
Nov 5, 2019 · ABOVE: Illustration of Pope Gregory IX, author of the Vox in Rama, from a manuscript from c. 1482 containing a collection of his decretal letters. Obviously, everything Pope Gregory IX says in this letter sounds incredibly bizarre and salacious—at least to modern readers who are unaccustomed to hearing stories about the alleged debaucheries engaged in by heretics.
Nov 2, 2015 · Pope Nicholas V issued the papal bull Dum Diversas. on 18 June, 1452. It authorizes (King) Alfonso V of Portugal to reduce any “Saracens (Muslims) and pagans and any other unbelievers to perpetual slavery. The same pope wrote the bull Romanus Pontifex on January 5, 1455 to the same Alfonso. As a follow-up to the Dum diversas, it extended to ...
In 577 Pope Benedict appointed Gregory one of the seven deacons of Rome, and Pope Pelagius II sent him to Constantinople in 578 as representative to the imperial court, then later recalled him to ...
