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BONIFACE VII

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 207 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BONIFACE VII  . was pope from August 984 to
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July 985 . His
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family name was Franco . In 974 he was substituted by Crescentius and the
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Roman barons for Benedict VI., who had been assassinated . He was ejected by Count Sicco, the representative of the emperor
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Otto II., and fled to Constantinople . On the
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death of Otto (983) he returned, seized Pope John XIV., threw him into prison, and installed himself in his place . (L .

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