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GREGORY VI

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 569 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GREGORY VI  ., pope from 1045 to 1046 . As Johannes Gratianus he had earned a high reputation for learning and probity, and in 1045 he bought the
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Roman pontificate from his godson Benedict IX . At a council held by the emperor Henry III. at Sutri in ro46, he was accused of
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simony and deposed . He was banished into Germany, where he died in 1047 . He was accompanied into exile by his young protege Hildebrand (afterwards pope as Gregory VII.), and was succeeded by Clement II . (L .

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