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	Pope Benedict IX - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Benedict, being a child or an adolescent at the time of his first assumption of the Holy See, was entirely unsuited to be pontiff; he reportedly led an extremely dissolute life, although in terms of theology and the ordinary activities of the Church he was entirely orthodox.
		Benedict retook Rome and remained on the throne until July 1046, although Gregory is still regarded as the official pope at that point.
		Benedict rejected this and when Clement II died in October 1047 he seized the Lateran Palace in November, but was driven away in July 1048 and Poppo of Brixen as Damasus II finally succeeded Clement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pope_Benedict_IX (535 words)

	BENEDICT (I.-XIV.) - LoveToKnow Article on BENEDICT (I.-XIV.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		BENEDICT I. was pope from 573 to 578.
		BENEDICT Ix., pope from 1033 to 1056, son of Alberic, count of Tusculum, and nephew of Benedict VIII., was also called Theophylactus.
		Benedict XIII., who had on his part tried to call together a council at Perpignan, was by this time recognized hardly anywhere but in his native land, in Scotland, and in the estates of the countship of Armagnac.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BE/BENEDICT_I_XIV_.htm (1983 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Benedict IX
		Benedict, however, succeeded in expelling Sylvester the same year; but, as some say, that he might marry, he resigned his office into the hands of the Archpriest John Gratian for a large sum.
		Benedict, Sylvester, and Gregory were deposed at the Council of Sutri (1046) and a German bishop (Suidger) became Pope Clement II.
		Leo IX died, and never to have ceased endeavouring to seize the papacy.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02429a.htm (601 words)

	Pope Benedict XVI
		Benedict XVI was elected pope at the age of 78.
		In his autobiography, Salt of the Earth (1997), Benedict XVI writes that his older brother Georg was "obliged" (forced) to join, but that he later "registered" himself (volunteered) in it as a seminarian.
		However, Benedict wrote that he deserted after hearing of Hitler's suicide, which was actually when most of the soldiers deserted their posts.
	www.archelaos.com /popes/details.aspx?id=304 (676 words)

	Benedict IX
		Benedict was the great-grandson of Marozia, a Roman Senatrix and powerful politician who was reputedly the mistress of Pope Sergius III.
		As a womanizer and a glutton, Benedict was merely indulging in the grand Roman Catholic tradition of the day, following in the footsteps of popes like Sergius and John XII, who transformed the Lateran palace into a brothel.
		Benedict easily cinched the support of the libertine faction, whose members suspected the day of reckoning might be at hand.
	www.rotten.com /library/bio/religion/popes/benedict-ix (1114 words)

	Can the Pope Retire?
		He was the nephew of Pope Benedict VIII (1012 - 1024) and Pope John XIX (1024 - 1032), and a member of one of the powerful families.
		Upon the death of Pope John XIX in 1032, Benedict's father, Alberic, bribed, manipulated and threatened the Roman clergy to have him elected.
		Apparently, Benedict IX was promised a large sum of money and a woman in marriage if he resigned his office in favor of John Gratian, Archpriest of the Church of St. John at Porta Latina.
	www.catholiceducation.org /articles/religion/re0786.html (1221 words)

	The Ecole Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Rumored to have been 12 at the time he became pope, Benedict IX was probably in his late 20's when his family's position and money put him on the papal throne in 1032.
		Benedict held Rome at the time and retained rule until July 1048, when he was ousted in favor of Damasus II.
		Benedict retired to a family estate and refused to appear before a synod when charged with simony in 1049.
	www2.evansville.edu /ecoleweb/glossary/benedictix.html (178 words)

	CNN.com - Benedict a popular pontiff name - Apr 20, 2005
		Benedict IX (1032-1045): Widely regarded as one of the worst pontiffs of the Middle Ages, he was only 20 when elected pope, and swiftly gained an unwholesome reputation for greed and corruption.
		Benedict V (964): One of the more unfortunate pontiffs to hold the papal title, Benedict V was deposed almost as soon as he had been elected by the Holy Roman Emperor Otho I, who wanted to install his own candidate in the Vatican.
		Benedict I (575-579): Almost nothing is known of the first pope to carry the name Benedict, save that he was born in Rome and headed the Catholic Church at a time of great political upheaval, with Italy being overrun from the north by the Germanic Lombard tribe.
	edition.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/europe/04/20/pope.name (464 words)

	SBU Dept. of History & Political Science: HIS 1113 Lecture Twenty-six (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Benedict IX, member and nominee of the dominant Roman political faction headed by the family of the counts of Tusculum, had been pope from 1032 until 1044 when he was driven out of office and from Rome by Sylvester III, leader of a rival political faction.
		Benedict IX made a deal with the new ruling faction in Rome to abdicate if they would pension him with a very considerable sum (1000 pounds of silver).
		Nevertheless, the Roman mobs under the leadership of Benedict IX's brother, Gregory, seized control by mob violence in the meantime and elected Benedict X. Benedict X was allowed to serve for a few months in 1058-1059 before being deposed to clear the way for Nicholas II.
	www.sbuniv.edu /~hgallatin/hi13le26.html (4529 words)

	Christian History Handbook: Medieval: Lecture Fifteen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Benedict IX regained his office after about seven weeks, but he seems to have realized that even winning over Sylvester could not secure his position.
		Benedict IX made a deal with the ruling faction to abdicate if the faction would pension him with a very considerable sum (1000 pounds of silver).
		Leo IX agreed to assist provided the churches and monasteries in the liberated area of eastern Capua-Benevento and in Byzantine Apulia would be realigned with the Bishop of Rome.
	www.sbuniv.edu /~hgallatin/ht34632e15.html (5315 words)

	List of Popes (Our Lady of Good Health Mission)
		And in 684, owing to the long delays involved in the journey to Constantinople, Constantine IV (Pogonatus) acceded to Benedict II's request that in future it should not be necessary to wait for confirmation, but that a mere notification of the election would suffice.
		This was, in fact, done at most of the elections during the ninth century, and in 898 the riots which ensued upon the death of Pope Stephen V led John IX to give ecclesiastical sanction to this system of imperial control.
		But Leo IX insisted that the Church was free in the choice of her pastors, and, until he was duly elected at Rome, declined to assume any of the state of his office.
	tamilchurch.homestead.com /Pope.html (1825 words)

	Keeping Catholics Catholic Page XXV-The Timeline-The Eleventh Century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Pope Benedict IX excommunicates the rebellious Archbishop of Milan, Aribert.
		Pope Benedict IX abandoned the city of Rome due to bloody fighting caused by an Insurrection.
		Benedict IX returns to the Holy See and is Pope once again, only to abandon the Papacy a second time later on in this year.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Ithaca/6461/11cent.html (3449 words)

	666man.net - 265 Popes From the Vatican's Official List
		However, Benedict XVI causes the count to run over 666 and, in fact, as of the writing of this paragraph (April 29, 2005), the count total of the seven Papal names used since 1798 is 680.
		Benedict XVI adds 15 to the count because they skipped Benedict X, so he is not the sixteenth pope in the Benedict series, but actually is the fifteenth pope in that series.
		Benedict XVI’s new name will be a new Papal name never before used in Papal history, this new name will add a count of 1 to the count total.
	www.666man.net /265popes.html (1418 words)

	Benedict IX -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		It is known mainly for its association with the Benedictine monastery founded on the summit of Monte Cassino by St. Benedict of Nursia in 529.
		Following the death of John Paul II in 2005, Benedict XVI became the 265th bishop of Rome and the head of the Roman Catholic church.
		Prior to his election as pope, Benedict led a distinguished career as a theologian and as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9078564?tocId=9078564 (586 words)

	GREGORY VI
		When the scandalous Benedict IX began to grow weary of being pope he went to his godfather, John Gratian, the worthy archpriest of St. John-at-the- Latin-Gate, and asked him if it were legitimate for a pope to abdicate.
		Benedict, however, demanded compensation, and John gave him a large sum of money he had at hand for some worthy object.
		Benedict was passed over because he had abdicated.
	www.cfpeople.org /books/pope/POPEp147.htm (489 words)

	666man.Net - Total of Years Reigned and Counts of the 7 Papal Names
		Note that Benedict IX was pope 3 different times, but he is counted as one pope.
		Well, Benedict XVI is one of the seven names of the popes that have occurred since 1798, and after a few years of reign, he will change his name to a new Papal name, which has a count of 1, which will bring the count total to 666.
		Benedict XVI's new name will be a new Papal name not used before in Papal history, so will add a count of 1 to the count total.
	www.666man.net /totalyearsreign.html (994 words)

	CBSNews.com Who's Who Person
		With his dissolute life and attempts to regain the papacy after he resigned, Pope Benedict IX was considered a disgrace to the church.
		At a very young age, he was elected in 1032 to succeed his two uncles, who were popes just before him.
		The excesses of his lifestyle, however, led the Romans to try to replace him with an antipope in 1044, but Benedict was successful in driving out his rival, only to resign the papacy the next year so he could marry.
	www.cbsnews.com /elements/2005/04/20/in_depth_world/whoswho689772_0_9_person.shtml (138 words)

	Pope
		In between these two Benedicts, there were a number of popes, but no Pope Benedict X. There was a man who assumed that title, but he was an anti-pope.
		By assuming the title of Benedict XI he was giving validity to the supposed papacy of the antipope who called himself Benedict X. There has until recently been a wide variety of official lists of popes, whose continuity forms the title deed of Rome.
		Benedict XVI (or is it Benedict XV?) blamed the media for over reacting to the scandal, but this is but an open admission that the public pretended sanctity of the priesthood is more valuable to the pope than the young men who have been marred for life.
	www.angelfire.com /ky/dodone/Benx.html (798 words)

	The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Creations of Cardinals of the XI Century
		Teofilatto, of the counts of Tusculum, nephew of Pope Benedict VIII and John XX, created cardinal deacon, his deaconry is not known.
		Giovanni, nephew of Benedict IX, bishop of Labico on April 10, 1045.
		It was in the pagan basilica of Matilda, in the IX region of Rome.
	www.fiu.edu /~mirandas/consistories-xi.htm (6224 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
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		Benedict founded the Monastery of Monte Cassino, the mother abbey of those hosts of monasteries which did so much for the Church and for civilization.
		Monasticism was already a powerful force, but St. Benedict is rightly regarded as the patriarch of Western monks.
	www.ewtn.com /library/CHRIST/POPES.TXT (22289 words)

	History of the Mass (10histot.htm)
		Many suspected Benedict IX had had Clement poisoned by paid assassins posing as gypies on the road to the abbey and when his body was exhumed on October 22, 1733 they found traces of poison in his blood but it could not be determined the cause.
		Those historians who knew the wiles of Benedict IX strongly suspect him because he was already in Rome ready to reassume the papal throne.
		Through Bartholomew's calm and holy ways he was able to convince Benedict of his sins and the deposed pope repented and retired to the Monastery of St. Basil in Grottaferrata in Italy where he became a monk and lived out the rest of his life in prayer and reparation.
	www.dailycatholic.org /10histot.htm (2065 words)

	Pope's Photo Gallery (151-200)
		At the request of the Emperor Henry III of Germany he took the place of Benedict IX, after Aliard Bishop of Lyons, had declined the tiara.
		152 - ST. LEO IX Born in Lorraine, he was elected on the 12th March 1049 and died on the 18th April 1057.
		178 - GREGORY IX Born in Anagni, he was elected on the 21st March 1227 and died on the22nd August 1241.
	members.tripod.com /~cckswong/pope151_200.htm#183 (2763 words)

	Pope's Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Born in Rome, he was elected on the 6th December 963 and died on the 1st March 965.
		Elected as an Antipope, he reigned for a few months despite many vicissitudes with his predecessor and his successor Benedict V. He forbade the laity to enter the presbitery during solemn functions.
		For a time he took the place of Pope Benedict IX who excommumcated him as an Antipope.
	www.albino-luciani.com /gallery04.html (2577 words)

	Church Approval I
		Pius IX sanctioned the scapular by a Rescript of 25 June, 1847
		Leo VIII (963) is included, as the resignation of Benedict V, though enforced, may have been genuine.
		Thus three popes named John were made to appear between Benedict VII and Gregory V. The error led the pope of the thirteenth century who should have been called John XX to style himself John XXI (Duchesne, "Lib.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/234v432/approval1.htm (2037 words)

	Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion: Foldout (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Taking advantage of the dissolute life he was leading, one of the factions in the city drove him out in 1044, and elected an antipope – Sylvester III.
		After his speedy demise, Benedict again seized Rome in 1047, but was driven out to make way for a second German pope, Damasus II.
		Benedict is said to have been alive when Leo IX died, and continued his attempts to seize the papacy, others says that he resigned the pontificate and died in penitence
	members.aol.com /calderdale/mmp164.html (2706 words)

	Pope Tribute - List of Popes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		His list ends in 1049 with Pope Leo IX as the number 154.
		Felix II (356-357), Boniface VII (974, 984-985), John XVI (997-998), Benedict X (1058-1059) and Alexander V (1409-1410) are not in the list as they were considered antipopes.
		This is impossible as Leo IV was immediately succeeded by Benedict III and is challenged by an antipope during that time.
	popetribute.com /content/view/18/31 (595 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Leo IX
		Whilst still a youth and at home for his holidays, he was attacked when asleep by some animal, and so much injured that for some time he lay between life and death.
		In that condition he saw, as he used afterwards to tell his friends, a vision of St. Benedict, who cured him by touching his wounds with a cross.
		Before Leo could do anything in the matter of the reform of the Church on which his heart was set, he had first to put down another attempt on the part of the ex-Pope Benedict IX to seize the papal throne.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09160c.htm (2451 words)

	Patron Saints Index: Pope Benedict IX (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Patron Saints Index: Pope Benedict IX Pope Benedict IX Profile
		Holy Roman Emperor Henry III intervened, threw out all three of them, and Clement II was elected pope.
		Upon Clement's death in 1047 Benedict seized the throne, but in 1048 he was forced out by Clement's successor, Damasus II.
	www.catholic-forum.com /saints/pope0146.htm (109 words)

	The Papacy - A Historical Perspective
		896 - 900 A.D. - Stephen VI, Romanus, Theodore II, John IX - Benedict IV, Leo V, Sergius III, Anastasius III
		1032 - 1046 A.D. - Benedict IX, Silvester III, Benedict IX, Gregory VI - Clement II, Benedict IX, Damasus II, St. Leo IX - Victor II, Stephen IX, Nicholas II, Alexander II - St. Gregory VII, Bl.
		1724 - 1758 A.D. - Benedict XIII, Clement XlI, Benedict XIV
	www.mgr.org /PapalIndex.html (1088 words)

	AllRefer.com - Popes of the Roman Catholic Church (table) - Encyclopedia
		Antipopes : i.e., those men whose elections have been declared uncanonical : are indicated.
		Leo VII, 96365, or Benedict V, 96466 (one of these was an antipope)
		antipope: Benedict XIII, 13941423 (see Luna, Pedro de)
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/popesTABLE.html (210 words)

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