Pope Lucius II
Pope of the Catholic Church from 1144 to 1145
- Fame58.7
- Momentum3.1
- Religious Figures rank#245
- Fame58.7
- Momentum3.1
- Religious Figures rank#245
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ItalyA pope who died trying to storm a building. Lucius II's year-long reign ended when Roman republicans seized control of the city and he led an assault to take it back — fatal move for a 12th-century pontiff.
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Gherardo Caccianemici dal Orso became Pope Lucius II on 9 March 1144, stepping into a papacy besieged by the Commune of Rome, a republican movement determined to strip the Church of its temporal power over the city. The tension exploded into open conflict as the commune fortified its position and Lucius refused to yield. He backed Empress Matilda in England's civil war known as the Anarchy and clashed with King Roger II of Sicily, but Rome itself consumed him. On 15 February 1145, less than a year into his papacy, he died — whether from injuries sustained in the failed assault on the Capitolin…
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