Pope Benedict IX (3rd reign)
1012 CE–1056 CE · Tusculum
After Clement II's death in 1047, Benedict IX—born Theophylactus of Tusculum—seized Rome a third time, backed again by his family, and held it for several months. Emperor Henry III refused to recognize him and dispatched forces that drove him out in 1048, clearing the way for the German pope Damasus II. Excommunicated, Benedict withdrew to the Tusculan lands and reportedly spent his final years in penitence at the abbey of Grottaferrata, where tradition says he died around 1055–1056. His thrice-held, simony-stained career became the emblematic abuse against which the Gregorian reform defined itself.
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