Pope Benedict IX
1012 CE–1056 CE · Tusculum
Benedict IX, born Theophylactus of the Counts of Tusculum, was nephew of Benedict VIII and John XIX, made pope as a young man through family power. He is notorious as the only person to hold the papacy in three separate periods, and was bitterly condemned by reformers like Peter Damian for his dissolute conduct—though some of the lurid charges reflect later polemic. Driven from Rome by a revolt in 1044, he returned, then in 1045 sold or surrendered the papacy to his godfather Gregory VI, an act of simony that scandalized Christendom and helped ignite the reform movement that followed.
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