Pope Clement II
?–1047 CE · Saxony (German lands)
Born Suidger, a Saxon nobleman and bishop of Bamberg, Clement II became the first of the German reform popes when Emperor Henry III, having deposed three rival claimants at Sutri, secured his election in late 1046. Henry, distrusting the Roman factions, turned to his own loyal bishops to cleanse the papacy. Clement crowned Henry and Empress Agnes and promptly held a synod against simony. His reign lasted under a year; he died in October 1047, possibly of lead poisoning according to later analysis of his remains. He is buried in Bamberg Cathedral, the only pope interred in Germany.
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Saxony, a region of the German lands. Several reform-era popes of the 11th century (part of the German imperial papacy) were drawn from the Saxon and wider German nobility.
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