Pope Stephen IX
?–1058 CE · Metz
Frederick of Lorraine, brother of Duke Godfrey the Bearded, was a leading reformer who served as a papal legate to Constantinople in 1054 and later became abbot of Monte Cassino and cardinal. Elected Stephen IX in 1057, he advanced the Gregorian reform agenda and is credited with promoting Hildebrand and Peter Damian. He contemplated ambitious plans, possibly aimed at curbing Norman power and elevating his ducal family. His pontificate lasted under eight months before he died at Florence in 1058, but it strengthened the reformers' grip on the Curia ahead of the decisive electoral reforms under his successor.
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Metz, a city in Lorraine in northeastern France, was home to one of the wealthiest and most prominent Jewish communities in early-modern France. After Jewish resettlement was permitted in the mid-sixteenth century, the community flourished from 1648 until the French Revolution, maintaining a large yeshiva and choosing distinguished chief rabbis; among those who led it were Rabbi Jonah Teomim-Fraenkel and, in the eighteenth century, Rabbi Jonathan Eybeschütz (1742-1750).
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