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

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