Boniface VII

See also: Boniface

Boniface VII , antipape Roman in 974 and 984.

It is initially named Francon , was made irregularly elect in 974, of living of Benoît VI and Jean XIV, his candidates. With its death, its body was trailed by the feet and was given up on a place, 985.

It was Roman and wire of Ferrucius; it usurped the pulpit of Pierre saint into 974, reinstalled themselves into 984 and died there in July 985. In June 974, one year after the death of the emperor Otton I, Crescentius, wire of Théodora and brother of Jean XIII, caused in Rome an insurrection during which the Romans locked up brutally Benoît VI in the castle Saint-Angel and gave him like successor the Franco cardinal-deacon, who took the name of Boniface VII. The imprisoned pontiff was quickly carried out on the orders of the usurper. But a little more than one month later the imperial representative, the count Sicco, had taken possession of the city and Boniface, incompetent to be maintained there, flees in Constantinople with the treasures of the Basilica of the Vatican. After a nine years exile in Byzance, Otto II died on December 7th, 983 and Franco hastened to return to Rome, was made main of Jean XIV (April 984), and threw it in the dungeons of Saint-Angel, where the unhappy one died four months later, and it directed derechef the government of the Church. The usurper, who had never ceased regarding himself as the legitimate pontiff, went back the years to his reign of the deposition of Benoit VI into 974. During more than one year Rome supported this soiled monster of the blood of its predecessors. But the punishment was terrible. After its sudden death in July, 985, due according to all probabilities to violence, the body of Boniface was exposed to the insults of the people, was trailed by the streets of the city and finally, was naked and covered with wounds, jeté to the feet of the statue of Marc-Aurèle, who drew up himself at that time in the Palate of Lateran. The following morning of the priests taken of pity removed the body and gave him a Christian burial.

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This article is partially or entirely resulting from a translation of the Catholic Encyclopedia from 1911 (public domain)

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