Pope Damasus II
?–1048 CE · Bavaria
Poppo of Brixen, a Bavarian bishop, became Damasus II in 1048 as the second German reformer raised to the papacy by Emperor Henry III. His reign was among the shortest in history: he died after only twenty-three days, in August 1048, near Palestrina. Contemporary chroniclers attribute his death to malaria contracted in the Roman summer heat, though rumors of poisoning circulated, as was common in this turbulent era. Though he accomplished little, his fleeting pontificate forms part of the German imperial effort to reform a papacy long dominated by Roman aristocratic factions.
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Bavaria, a region of southern Germany. Several German reform popes of the 11th century were drawn from the Bavarian and wider imperial church.
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- Pope Clement II· –1047 CE
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