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Pope Benedict VIII

d. 1024 · 11th century · Also known as Benedict VIII

Benedict VIII, born Theophylactus of Tusculum, was pope from 1012 to 1024, the first of three popes from the family of the counts of Tusculum. He crowned Henry II emperor in 1014, encouraged Pisa and Genoa against Muslim raiders in Sardinia, and held a reforming synod at Pavia in 1022 that condemned clerical marriage. His brother succeeded him as John XIX.

Pope Benedict VIII
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County of Tusculum

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