Pope Benedict VI
Pope · Italy · Religious Figures · Died 974
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Something wrong?A tenth-century pope caught in the machinery of Roman power politics, his pontificate ending violently after barely a year when the protections of empire shifted and the old families closed in.
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Benedict VI became bishop of Rome in January 973, during the delicate passage between Otto I's reign and Otto II's - a moment when the Holy Roman Empire's grip on the papacy was strongest but also most vulnerable to transition. The Crescentii and other Roman aristocratic clans, who had long fought to control the papal throne, watched and waited. His pontificate lasted thirteen months. In June 974, with imperial attention elsewhere, he was dead - the brief reign extinguished in the same brutal contest for power that had shaped the papacy for generations.
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