biography
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Leo IX, St
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originally Bruno, Count von Egisheim of Dagsburg
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| lived:
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| biography:
| Pope, born in Egisheim, Alsace, Upper Lorraine, France. A cousin of emperor Henry III, he was appointed pope by him in 1048 and ordained in 1049. With the help of Ildebrando di Soana (later Gregory VII), he implemented reform on a large scale, fighting simony and the clergy's concubinage. He tried, unsuccessfully, to stop the Normans' conquest of S Italy, and was defeated by them at Civitate sul Fortore in 1053. The excommunication of the Patriarch of Constantinople meant the final break with the E church. |
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