When Otto II sent an imperial representative, Count Sicco, to secure his release, Crescentius I and Cardinal-Deacon Franco Ferrucci, who would subsequently become Boniface VII, an antipope, had Benedict murdered while still in prison.

He succeeded to the papacy as a compromise candidate to replace antipope Boniface VII ( 974, 984 – 985 ).

Boniface VII was excommunicated and unsuccessfully attempted to retake the papacy.

Antipope Boniface VII ( Franco Ferrucci, died July 20, 985 ), was an antipope ( 974, 984 – 985 ).

Boniface VII was the son of Ferrucius and was originally named Franco.

The predecessor of Boniface VII was Benedict VI, ordained on January 19, 973.

He was the Imperial faction candidate, while Franco ( late Boniface VII ) was the proposed candidate for the National party.

After Pope Benedict VI was murdered, Franco elevated to the papacy throne and took the name Boniface VII.

As riots and chaos ensued, Boniface VII took refuge in Castel Sant ’ Angelo where he robbed the treasury of the Vatican Basilica and fled to Byzantine territory in southern Italy.

Boniface VII is described as a monster by contemporaries, who stated that he was stained by the blood of Benedict VI.

The events of this period in Rome are unfortunately only known to us through the insufficient notices, and we are barely aware of the rise of Boniface VII before we hear of his overthrow.

Benedict VII was elected pope in October 974 with the approval of Sicco and supposedly even the Crescentii family who behind the initial rebellion that put Boniface VII into power.

Benedict VII immediately held a synod where he excommunicated Boniface.

Little is known of the reign of Boniface VII, however, on July 20, 985, he suddenly died.

They likely overthrew Boniface VII in hopes of seizing control of vulnerable Rome.

After a reign spanning eleven years, in which he overthrew two popes, allowing both to die in Castel Sant ’ Angelo, Boniface VII was finally dead.

The feats of Antipope Boniface VII were in no way insignificant.

Due to the lack of information on this whole time period in Roman history, there has not been much further research on Antipope Boniface VII.

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( Note on numbering: Pope Boniface VII is now considered an antipope.

* August 20 – Antipope Boniface VII murders Pope John XIV.

The Antipope Boniface VII, who had spend nine years in exile in the Byzantine Empire, joined forces with Byzantine nobles in southern Italy and marched on Rome in April 984 in order to claim the papal throne for himself.

With the aid of the sons of Crescentius the Elder, Crescentius II and John Crescentius, Boniface VII was about to imprison John XIV in the Tomb of Hardian.

Nogaret is hardly an impartial witness, and even he did not make his charges against Boniface until the latter was dead, but there is some truth in what he said and more in what he did not say.

Boniface had to uphold the sacredness of the feudal contract at all costs, for it was only as suzerain of Sicily and of the Patrimony of Peter that he had any justification for his Italian wars, but in the English-Scottish-French triangle it was almost impossible for him to recognize the claims of any one of the contestants without seeming to invalidate those of the other two.

Boniface was later to explain to the English that Robert of Burgundy and Guy De St.-Pol were easy enough to do business with ; ;

Here Alexios III eventually surrendered, with Euphrosyne, to Marquis Boniface of Montferrat, who was establishing himself as ruler of the Kingdom of Thessalonica.

Saint Bruno of Querfurt ( c. 974 – February 14, 1009 ), also known as Brun and Boniface, is a sainted missionary bishop and martyr, who was beheaded near the border of Kievan Rus and Lithuania while trying to spread Christianity in Eastern Europe.

Boniface was from a noble family of Querfurt ( now in Saxony-Anhalt ).

In the course of a plot between Philip of Swabia, Boniface of Montferrat and the Doge of Venice, the Fourth Crusade was, despite papal excommunication, diverted in 1203 against Constantinople, ostensibly promoting the claims of Alexius son of the deposed emperor Isaac.

This was followed by the Liber Sextus ( 1298 ) of Boniface VIII, the Clementines ( 1317 ) of Clement V, the Extravagantes Joannis XXII and the Extravagantes Communes, all of which followed the same structure as the Liber Extra.

Pope Boniface VIII his extraordinary shortness of stature led the pope to believe he was kneeling, and to ask him three times to rise, to the immense merriment of the cardinals ; and that he had a daughter, Novella, so accomplished in law as to be able to read her father's lectures in his absence, and so beautiful, that she had to read behind a curtain lest her face should distract the attention of the students.

The government was taken over by Supreme Court Chief Justice Boniface Alexandre.

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Yorke argues that there were two kings of Kent during Eadbald's reign, Eadbald and Æthelwald, and that Æthelwald was the " Aduluald " referred to by Boniface.

Joinville was a close friend, confidant, and counsellor to the king, and also participated as a witness in the papal inquest into Louis ' life that ended with his canonisation in 1297 by Pope Boniface VIII.

She was the daughter of Boniface III, ruler of many counties, among them Reggio, Modena, Mantua, Brescia, and Ferrara.

The last decree ( Senatus consultum ) which the Roman Senate is known to have issued, passed under Boniface II, was directed against simony in papal elections.

His first official act was to burn, in the presence of the assembled clergy, the anathema which Boniface II had pronounced against the latter's deceased rival Dioscurus on a false charge of simony and had ordered to be preserved in the Roman archives.

( Also on this legation was a young diplomat, the future Boniface VIII.

He became pope on 27 October 625, two days after the death of his predecessor, Boniface V. The festival of the Elevation of the Cross is said to have been instituted during the pontificate of Honorius, which was marked also by considerable missionary enterprise.

After his wife's death he became Bishop of Nola, and was invited to help resolve the disputed election of Pope Boniface I.

Among the seven cardinals created by Martin IV was Benedetto Gaetano, who afterwards ascended the papal throne as the famous Pope Boniface VIII.

Born in Treviso, he succeeded Pope Boniface VIII, but was unable to carry out his policies.

Benedict XI was a Dominican and when he was made Master of the Order in 1296, he issued ordinances forbidding public questioning of the legitimacy of Boniface VIII's election on the part of any Dominican.