XVI. THE FISH STINKS WORST AT THE HEAD
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Octavian, “princeps” of Rome
Nicholas Cheetham, Keepers of the Keys, “Papacy in the Doldrums”
“not like an apostle, but a wild man, his collection of women he adored … hateful to the church, beloved of violent youth.”
King Otto: Battle of Lechfeld
St. Adelaide
Berengar, king of Italy, and his son Adalbert
Dec. 5, 963: Pope Leo VII
With Pope John XII in Corsica
Annuario pontificio
Benedict V; John XIII (Crescenzio family); Benedict VI; Benedict VII
John Crescenzio & Pope John XV
Emperor Otto III & Father Bruno – Pope Gregory V
Bishop Gerbert of Aurillac
Catalonia
King Hugh Capet: archbishop of Rheims?
Abbot of Bobbio; archbishop of Ravenna; Pope Sylvester II
“renovation imperii Romanorum”
Book of Ceremonies
King Roger of France; King Stephen of Hungary; St. Olaf Traggvarson
De corpori et sanguini Domini
Pope Benedict IX, elected in 1032, 1045 and 1047
Albericus III – Theophylactus as Benedict IX
“With Benedict IX the papacy reached the bottom of moral decadence. The conditions in Rome at that time appeared even worse than that of John XIII, and perhaps surpassed in horror those of the Borgias …” Gregorovius
Emperor Conrad
Crescenzi
Priest John Gratian (Pope Gregory VI)
Emperor Henry III: Synod of Sutri
Pope Sylvester III
Hildebrand of Soana
Egisheim-Dagburg family