Pope Gregory IV
Pope and bishop of Rome from 827 to 844 · Italy · Religious Figures · Lived 795 to 844 · aged 49
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Something wrong?He held the papacy through the collapse of the Carolingian Empire, watching Charlemagne's inheritance fracture while trying - and failing - to broker peace between a pious emperor and his warring sons.
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Gregory IV became bishop of Rome in October 827, inheriting a papacy caught in the gravitational pull of Carolingian politics. His seventeen-year reign was dominated by the bitter family struggle between Emperor Louis the Pious and his sons, a conflict Gregory attempted to mediate without success. In 843, a year before his death, the empire split apart in the Treaty of Verdun - the formal end of Charlemagne's unified realm. Gregory died on 25 January 844, having witnessed the dismantling of the political order that had defined his entire pontificate.
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