Pope Gregory XI's return to Rome in 1377, followed by his death and the controversial election of his successor, Pope Urban VI, resulted in the defection of a number of cardinals and the election of a rival pope based at Avignon in 1378.

He was of the noble family of the counts of Tusculum ( son of Gregory, Count of Tusculum, and brother of future Pope John XIX ), descended from Theophylact, Count of Tusculum, just as was his predecessor Pope Benedict VI ( 973 – 974 ).

Benedict VIII was opposed by an antipope, Gregory VI, who compelled him to flee Rome.

In May 1045, Benedict IX resigned his office to pursue marriage, selling his office to his godfather, the pious priest John Gratian, who named himself Gregory VI.

Benedict IX soon regretted his resignation and returned to Rome, taking the city and remaining on the throne until July 1046, although Gregory VI continued to be recognized as the true pope.

German King Henry III intervened, and at the Council of Sutri in December 1046 Benedict IX and Sylvester III were declared deposed while Gregory VI was encouraged to resign, which he did.

* the second from his return to his selling the papacy to Gregory VI ( April – May 1045 )

In 1046, he accompanied King Henry III on his campaign to Italy and in December, participated in the Council of Sutri, which deposed former Popes Benedict IX and Sylvester III and persuaded Pope Gregory VI to resign.

Pope Gregory VI ( died 1048 ), born in Rome as John Gratian ( Latin Johannes Gratianus ), was Pope from 1 May 1045 until his abdication at the Council of Sutri on 20 December 1046.

The accession of Gratian, who took the name Gregory VI, did not bring peace to the Church, though it was hailed with joy even by such a strict upholder of the right as St. Peter Damian.

With an empty exchequer and a clergy that had largely lost the savour of righteousness, Gregory VI was confronted by an almost hopeless task.

Convinced that nothing could meet the challenges facing the Church except imperial intervention, a number of influential clergy and laity separated themselves from communion with Gregory VI or either of his two rivals and implored Emperor Henry III to cross the Alps and restore order.

Strong in the conviction of his innocence, Gregory VI went north to meet him.

Gregory VI was accused of purchasing the papacy and freely admitted it ; however, he disputed that this act, given the circumstances, constituted the crime of simony.

Gregory VI was succeeded in the papacy by the German bishop of Bamberg, Suidger, who took the name Pope Clement II.

Gregory VI himself was taken by the Emperor to Germany in May 1047, where he died in 1048, probably at Cologne.

Gregory VI was accompanied by Hildebrand, who remained with him until his death.

And when Hildebrand himself was elected Pope in 1073, he deliberately chose for himself the title Pope Gregory VII in order to proclaim his firm and loyal belief in the legitimacy of Gratian as Pope Gregory VI.

Gregory VI

A similar situation applies to Pope Gregory VI ( 1045 – 1046 ).

* Gregory VI becomes antipope.

* May 5 – Pope Gregory VI becomes the 148th pope, following the deposition of Pope Benedict IX.

Among his masters were the erudite Lawrence, archbishop of Amalfi, and the future Pope Gregory VI.

It is said that Felix appeared as an apparition to one of his descendants, his great-granddaughter Trasilla ( an aunt of Pope Gregory I ), and asked her to enter Heaven through death, and on the eve of Christmas Trasilla died, seeing Jesus Christ beckoning.

The cybernetician and anthropologist Gregory Bateson would observe in the 1970s that though seeing it only as an illustration, Wallace had " probably said the most powerful thing that ’ d been said in the 19th century ".

Believing none of this ( despite seeing the elephant with her own eyes ), Victoria tells Gregory that he is insane and she is going to have him committed.

When it came to a vote the Independent TD Tony Gregory abstained, seeing Haughey as the " lesser of two evils " ( the reason for this was Gregory's personal Republican convictions and his opposition to the Anglo-Irish agreement ).

Although Haughey did not have an overall majority when it came to a vote the Independent Socialist TD Tony Gregory voted against Fitzgerald but abstained on Haughey, seeing Haughey as the " lesser of two evils ".

Independent TD Tony Gregory abstained in the vote for Haughey seeing Haughey as the " lesser of two evils " due to Gregory's opposition to the agreement along with his personal dislike for Fitzgerald.

His management, loud American Kitty Schreiber ( Beth Porter ) and David Maxwell ( Gregory Floy ), have other ideas, and after seeing the Little Ladies live, decide to sign them up as an act in their own right.

Gregory further asserted that when Peter, James and John witnessed the transfiguration of Jesus on Mount Tabor, they were seeing the uncreated light of God, and that it is possible for others to be granted to see it, using spiritual disciplines and contemplative prayer.

The cybernetician and anthropologist Gregory Bateson would observe in the 1970s that though seeing it only as an illustration, Wallace had " probably said the most powerful thing that ’ d been said in the 19th century ".

She also auditioned for the part of Geena Gregory on Coronation Street, though she felt she knew Jennifer James would win the role — which she did — upon seeing her at the auditions.

The explorer Francis Thomas Gregory reported seeing iron ore in the region during his Pilbara explorations in late 1861 and the Government Geologist H. P.

St Gregory tells us little of these years.

Describing his new bishopric, Gregory lamented how it was nothing more than an " utterly dreadful, pokey little hole ; a paltry horse-stop on the main road ... devoid of water, vegetation, or the company of gentlemen ... this was my Church of Sasima!

Gregory interfered little in European politics, beyond assisting Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, and the Catholic League against the Protestants -- to the tune of a million gold ducats -- as well as Sigismund III Vasa, King of the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth, against the Ottoman Empire.

Gregory's work received little scholarly attention in the West until the mid-twentieth century, and he was historically treated as a minor figure in comparison to Basil the Great or Gregory of Nazianzus.

In AD 590, a little over two centuries after Evagrius wrote his list, Pope Gregory I revised this list to form the more common Seven Deadly Sins, by folding ( sorrow / despair / despondency ) into acedia, vainglory into pride, and adding envy.

Mike's boss was Rita J. Sanchez ( Rosana DeSoto ), and his other boys, who he treated as if they were his own sons, were aspiring heavyweight boxer Lester " Sugar " Thompson ( Martin Davis ), sweet little Dash ( Benji Gregory ), nerdy intellectual Lyle ( Gabriel Damon ), who supposedly did Mike's tax forms for him ; and huge, hulking Conan ( B. J.

A narrative history based mostly on previously published sources, Gregory Dowd writes that " Nester pays little attention to archival sources, sources in French, ethnography, and the past two decades of scholarship on Native American history " ( Dowd, War under Heaven, 283n9 ).

To oppose this project Benedict convoked a council at Perpignan while Gregory assembled another at Aquilea, but those assemblies met with little success, hence to the Council of Pisa were directed all the attention, unrest, and hopes of the Catholic world.

Pope Gregory I was convinced that Reccared refused bribes from the Jewish community, which was large, well-connected throughout the Mediterranean and powerful, and Reccared's laws provided that the offspring of a Christian and a Jew be baptised, which was of little moment to the Jewish community, as whether it was not born of a Jewish mother or was born of a Jewish woman outside her community, the child was not considered a Jew anyway.

Lewis and Gregory state that Catch-22 supports a thesis that goes beyond Goode's, namely that the inept can identify their own ineptitude, and become active participants in its own institutionalization ; whereas Goode asserts that the inept only ever have a passive rôle and can do little but accept their lot in life.

Bede's account of life at the court of the Anglo-Saxon kings includes little of the violence that Gregory of Tours mentions as a frequent occurrence at the Frankish court.

After the Lombard invasion, the popes ( i. e. St. Gregory, St. Peter, and St. Mark ) were nominally subject to the eastern emperor, but often received little help from Constantinople, and had to fill the lack of stately power, providing essential services ( ex.

John the Deacon ( eighth century ) in his Life of Gregory expresses this tradition: " He collected the Sacramentary of Gelasius in one book, leaving out much, changing little, adding something.

Gregory then delivers an extended speech with prophetic elements ( chapters 95-112 ), forming what Hubbard calls a " Patristic collection of Prophecies ": " There can be little doubt that chapters 102-115 are written as polemic against, if not an evangel to, the Jews.

After examining the cult of the Buddha image in India, Gregory Schopen concludes that followers of Mahāyāna at this time played little to no role in introducing statuary and other physical depictions of the Buddha.

* George Cyril Wellbeloved, her first and best-known keeper, is a rather unreliable sort, a little too fond of drink and lacking the old feudal loyalty ; he defects to the rival camp of Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe for a time, later returning to Blandings ( in Service With a Smile ), only to further betray Emsworth by joining yet another plot to kidnap the Empress.

The little fortress had been incorporated into the Papal States from their historic beginnings with the Lombard king Liutprand's Donation of Sutri ( 728 ) to Pope Gregory II, but the lords of Viterbo held it from 1110 to 1134.

: As is typical for a man his age, Gregory also has a secret ( little does he know that it is not so secret to the residents of the hotel )- a liking for dirty magazines.