XVIII. A GERMAN EMPEROR AND AN ALSATIAN POPE

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Henry II

Conrad II of Speyer

Boleslaus I

Henry III The Black

Agnes of Poitou

Three-Timer Pope Benedict IX

Bishop of Sabina … “Pope Sylvester III”

John Gratian …. Pope Gregory VI

St. Peter Damien:  The dove has returned to the ark with the olive branch.

Hildebrand of Soana

Meeting at Piacenza

Council of Sutri

Bishop Suidger of Morsleben-Hornburg … Pope Clement II

Poppone of Brixen, Bavaria … Pope Damasus II

Bishop Bruno of Toul … Pope St. Leo IX

(Pope St. Nicholas I The Great 867 A. D. !)

“The entire social and religious system of the world depended on the papacy of Rome.  This was how Nicholas I visualized the role of the institution, and he ruled in that spirit.”

Walter Ullmann

Bruno, son of Count Hugo of Egisheim

“Gomorrhianus:” The Diversity of Crimes against Nature

Hildebrand, Humbert (Moyenmoutier), Frederick of Liège

Duke of Lorraine

St. Peter Damiani, Prior of Gubbio, Cardinal-Archbishop of Ostia

Reform Councils

1049:  Rome, Pavia, Rheims, Mayence

1050:  Rome, Salerno, Siponto, Vercelli

1051:  Rome

1053:  Mantua, Rome

Benevento

Civitate

Swabian guards