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GUIBERT, or WIBERT (c. 1o30–1100)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 683 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GUIBERT, or WIBERT (c. 1o30–1100)  , of See also:Ravenna, antipope under the See also:title of See also:Clement III. from the 25th of See also:June ro8o until See also:September lido, was See also:born at See also:Parma between 1020 and 1030 of the See also:noble imperialist See also:family, Corregio . He entered the See also:priest-See also:hood and was appointed by the empress See also:Agnes, See also:chancellor and, after the See also:death of See also:Pope See also:Victor II . (10J7), imperial See also:vicar in See also:Italy . He strove to uphold the imperial authority during See also:Henry IV.'s minority, and presided over the See also:synod at See also:Basel (See also:rota) which annulled the See also:election of See also:Alexander II. and created in the See also:person of Cadalous, See also:bishop of Parma, the antipope See also:Honorius II . See also:Guibert lost the chancellorship in Io62 . In 1073, through the See also:influence of Empress Agnes and the support of See also:Cardinal See also:Hildebrand, he obtained the archbishopric of Ravenna and swore fealty to Alexander II. and his successors . He seems to have been at first on friendly terms with See also:Gregory VII., but soon quarrelled with him over the See also:possession of the See also:city of See also:Imola, and'henceforth was recognized as the soul of the imperial See also:faction in the See also:investiture contest . He allied himself with Cencius, Cardinal Candidus and other opponents of Gregory at See also:Rome, and, on his refusal to furnish troops or to attend the Lenten synod of 1075, he was ecclesiastically suspended by the pope . He was probably excommunicated at the synod of See also:Worms(IO76) with other Lombard bishops who sided with Henry IV., and at the Lenten synod of 1078 he was banned by name . The See also:emperor, having been excommunicated for the second See also:time in See also:March io8o, convened nineteen bishops of his party at See also:Mainz on the 31st of May, who pronounced the deposition of Gregory; and on the 25th of June he caused Guibert to be elected pope by See also:thirty bishops assembled at See also:Brixen . Guibert, whilst retaining possession of his archbishopric, accompanied his imperial See also:master on most of the latter's military expeditions . Having gained Rome, he was installed in the Lateran and consecrated as Clement III. on the 24th of March 1084 .

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week later, on See also:Easter See also:Sunday, he crowned Henry IV. and Bertha in St See also:Peter's . Clement survived not only Gregory VII. but also Victor III. and See also:Urban II., maintaining his title to the end and in See also:great measure his See also:power over Rome and the adjoining regions . See also:Excommunication was pronounced against him by all his rivals . He was driven out of Rome finally by crusaders in 1097, and sought See also:refuge in various fortresses on his own estates . St Angelo, the last Guibertist stronghold in Rome, See also:fell to Urban II. on the 24th of See also:August 1098 . Clement, on the See also:accession of See also:Paschal II. in 1099, prepared to renew his struggle but was driven from Albano by See also:Norman troops and died at Civita Castellana in September 'too . His ashes, which were said by his followers to have worked miracles, were thrown into the See also:water by Paschal II . See J . Langan, Geschichte der romischen Kirche von Gregor VII. bis See also:Innocent III . (See also:Bonn, 1893) ; Jaffe-See also:Wattenbach, Regesta pontif . See also:Roman . (2nd ed., 1885–1888) ; K .

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Hefele, Conciliengeschichte, vol. v . (2nd ed.) ; F . See also:Gregorovius, Rome in the See also:Middle Ages, vol. iv., trans. by Mrs G . W . See also:Hamilton (See also:London, 1900–1902); and O . Kohncke, Wibert von Ravenna (See also:Leipzig, 1888) . (C . H . HA.) .

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