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BENEDICT VI

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 718 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BENEDICT VI . was See also:pope from 972 to 974. He was chosen with See also:great ceremony and installed pope under the See also:protection of the See also:emperor, See also:Otto the Great. On the See also:death of the emperor the turbulent citizens of See also:Rome renewed their outrages, and the pope himself was strangled by See also:order of Crescentius, the son of the notorious See also:Theodora, who replaced him by a See also:deacon called Franco. This Franco took the name of See also:Boniface VII.

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