| |
| | Popes Who Have Taken the Name Benedict |
 | | obtained at the council of Sutri the deposition of the three competing popes, and replaced them by Suidger, bishop of Baniberg, who took the name of Clement IL But before the close of 1047 Clement II. |
 | | The failure of these negotiations, for which he was only in part responsible, led to the universal movement of indignation an.d impatience, which ended, in France, in the declaration of neutrality (5408), and at Pisa, in the decree of deposition against the two pontiffs (5409). |
 | | 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.jknirp.com /bened.htm (3080 words) |
|