GUIBERT, or WIBERT (c. 1o30–1100)  , of Ravenna, antipope under the title of Clement III. from the 25th of June ro8o until September lido, was born at Parma between 1020 and 1030 of the noble imperialist family, Corregio . He entered the priest-hood and was appointed by the empress Agnes, chancellor and, after the death of Pope Victor II . (10J7), imperial vicar in Italy . He strove to uphold the imperial authority during Henry IV.'s minority, and presided over the synod at Basel (rota) which annulled the election of Alexander II. and created in the person of Cadalous, bishop of Parma, the antipope Honorius II . Guibert lost the chancellorship in Io62 . In 1073, through the influence of Empress Agnes and the support of Cardinal 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 Gregory VII., but soon quarrelled with him over the possession of the city of Imola, and'henceforth was recognized as the soul of the imperial faction in the investiture contest . He allied himself with Cencius, Cardinal Candidus and other opponents of Gregory at 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 Worms(IO76) with other Lombard bishops who sided with Henry IV., and at the Lenten synod of 1078 he was banned by name . The emperor, having been excommunicated for the second time in March io8o, convened nineteen bishops of his party at 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 thirty bishops assembled at Brixen . Guibert, whilst retaining possession of his archbishopric, accompanied his imperial 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 Easter Sunday, he crowned Henry IV. and Bertha in St Peter's . Clement survived not only Gregory VII. but also Victor III. and Urban II., maintaining his title to the end and in great measure his power over Rome and the adjoining regions . Excommunication was pronounced against him by all his rivals . He was driven out of Rome finally by crusaders in 1097, and sought refuge in various fortresses on his own estates . St Angelo, the last Guibertist stronghold in Rome, fell to Urban II. on the 24th of August 1098 . Clement, on the accession of Paschal II. in 1099, prepared to renew his struggle but was driven from Albano by 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 water by Paschal II . See J . Langan, Geschichte der romischen Kirche von Gregor VII. bis Innocent III . (Bonn, 1893) ; Jaffe-Wattenbach, Regesta pontif . Roman . (2nd ed., 1885–1888) ; K .

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