Their raids throughout the three parts of Gaul were traumatic: Gregory of Tours ( died ca 594 ) mentions their destructive force at the time of Valerian and Gallienus ( 253 – 260 ), when the Alemanni assembled under their " king ", whom he calls Chrocus, who " by the advice, it is said, of his wicked mother, and overran the whole of the Gauls, and destroyed from their foundations all the temples which had been built in ancient times.

Gregory VII died the next year on May 25, 1085 in exile.

The last words he uttered were, ‘ I have loved justice and hated iniquity, and therefore I die in exile .” Gregory VII must have felt he died in utter failure, and to many of his contemporaries it appeared Henry IV and Antipope Clement III had won.

Several years later, Henry IV died in a deep gloom as had Gregory.

The excommunication of Bardinus was reiterated in Canon 6 of the document produced by Lateran I. Gelasius II promptly excommunicated the antipope Gregory VIII and Henry V. Gelasius was forced to flee under duress from the army of Henry V, and took refuge in the monastery of Cluny, where he died in January of 1119.

When Meletius died shortly after the opening of the council, Gregory was selected to lead the Council.

Through Vrtanes, Gregory and Miriam would have further descendants and when Gregory died, Aristaces succeeded him.

Before any further steps could be taken at Rome, Gregory XI died ( 1378 ).

Both Matilda's mother and husband died in 1076, leaving her in sole control of her great Italian patrimony as well as lands in Lorraine, while at the same time matters in the conflict between Pope Gregory VII and the German king Henry IV were at a crisis point.

Gregory VII died in 1085, and Matilda's forces, with those of Prince Jordan I of Capua ( her off and on again enemy ), took to the field in support of a new pope, Victor III.

Among his sons, Giacomo ( died 1379 ) was created cardinal by Gregory XI in 1371, while Nicola ( August 27, 1331 – February 14, 1399 ) obtained the counties of Ariano and Celano.

Later, the attempt of Alessandro ( died February 9, 1604 ) to obtain the title of Monterotondo was thwarted by Pope Gregory XIII.

He annulled Pope Gregory X's bull on the holding of papal conclaves, but died before enacting new regulations.

Gregory died on 11 February 731, and was buried in St. Peter ’ s Basilica.

Pope Saint Gregory III ( died 28 November 741 ) was pope from 11 February 731 to 28 November 741.

Unsuccessful at stopping the Lombard advance, Gregory III died on 28 November 741, and was succeeded by Pope Zachary.

On January 25, 844, Gregory IV died, and was buried in St. Peter ’ s Basilica.

Gregory V died suddenly, not without suspicion of foul play, on 18 February 999.

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.

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

Gregory died in Pisa on 17 December 1187 of a fever after holding the papacy for only 57 days.

Gregory, who was in poor health before his election to the papacy, died due to a large gallstone and was succeeded by Innocent IX.

Gregory XV died in the Quirinal Palace on 8 July 1623, and was buried in the Church of Sant ' Ignazio.

Gregory XIII died on 10 April 1585.

Rome surrendered to the German king in 1084, and Gregory thereupon retired into the exile of the Castel Sant ' Angelo and refused to entertain Henry's overtures, although the latter promised to hand over Guibert as a prisoner, if the sovereign pontiff would only consent to crown him emperor.

Pope Gregory the Great was closely connected to these bishops in exile, for example involving himself the election of Deusdedit.

A legendary story known to both Gregory of Tours and Fredegar tells that Childeric had fled to exile with the Thuringians, he arranged with his faithful follower Wiomad to send him a message when to return.

According to Gregory Gundobad had his wife drowned after tying a stone round her neck and Chilperic's two daughters driven into exile.

Its ruler, Prince Hedrik ( brother of Lorenz ), and his elder son were murdered in the communist revolution, leaving the younger son Prince Hubert in exile in Graustark and an illegitimate son Gregory who lived with his mother in Italy.

According to Gregory of Tours, Aegidius even ruled the Franks during Childeric's banishment, but Childeric later returned from exile.

Wax funeral effigy of Gregory VII under glass, Salerno cathedral

The Norman attacks on Benevento, a papal fief, alarmed and angered Gregory VII, but pressed hard by the emperor, Henry IV, he turned again to the Normans, and at Ceprano ( June 1080 ) reinvested Guiscard, securing him also in the southern Abruzzi, but reserving Salerno.

The forces of the new Byzantine strategos of Bari, Nicolaus Picingli, joined those of various other south Italian princes: Landulf I of Benevento, John I and Docibilis II of Gaeta, Gregory IV and John II of Naples, and Guaimar II of Salerno.

The first case recorded of the partial exemption of an abbot from episcopal control is that of Faustus, abbot of Lerins, at the council of Arles, AD 456 ; but the exorbitant claims and exactions of bishops, to which this repugnance to episcopal control is to be traced, far more than to the arrogance of abbots, rendered it increasingly frequent, and, in the 6th century, the practice of exempting religious houses partly or altogether from episcopal control, and making them responsible to the pope alone, received an impulse from Pope Gregory the Great.

However, this was not successful, for according to Gregory of Tours, Amalaric pressured her to forsake her Roman Catholic faith and convert to Arian Christianity, at one point beating her until she bled ; she sent to her brother Childebert I, king of Paris a towel stained with her own blood.

According to Gregory of Tours ' account, Alaric was intimidated by Clovis into surrendering Syagrius to Clovis ; Gregory then adds that " the Goths are a timorous race.

Alaric was forced by his magnates to meet Clovis in the Battle of Vouillé ( Summer 507 ) near Poitiers ; there the Goths were defeated and Alaric slain, according to Gregory of Tours, by Clovis himself.

The aim of the council was to end the schism ; to this end they deposed Gregory XII and Benedict XIII and elected the new pope Alexander V in 1409.

John XXIII was acknowledged as pope by France, England, Bohemia, Prussia, Portugal, parts of the Holy Roman Empire, and numerous Northern Italian city states, including Florence and Venice ; however, the Avignon Pope Benedict XIII was regarded as pope by the Kingdoms of Aragon, Castile, and Scotland and Gregory XII was still favored by Ladislaus of Naples, Carlo I Malatesta, the princes of Bavaria, Louis III, Elector Palatine, and parts of Germany and Poland.

These followers, he says, are Constantinus, who succeeded Benedict as Abbot of Monte Cassino ; Valentinianus ; Simplicius ; and Honoratus, who was abbot of Subiaco when St Gregory wrote his Dialogues.

In Gregory ’ s day, history was not recognized as an independent field of study ; it was a branch of grammar or rhetoric, and historia ( defined as ‘ story ’) summed up the approach of the learned when they wrote what was, at that time, considered ‘ history .’ Gregory ’ s Dialogues Book Two, then, an authentic medieval hagiography cast as a conversation between the Pope and his deacon Peter, is designed to teach spiritual lessons.

At the end of the work, Bede added a brief autobiographical note ; this was an idea taken from Gregory of Tours ' earlier History of the Franks.

Four of the most notable English Abbeys are the Basilica of St Gregory the Great at Downside, commonly known as Downside Abbey, Ealing Abbey in Ealing, West London and St. Lawrence's in Yorkshire ( Ampleforth Abbey ) and Worth Abbey which has appeared in two BBC2 TV programmes ; ' The Monastery ( BBC TV series )' and ' The Big Silence '.

In ancient literature, we find a reference to the workings of water-powered marble saws close to Trier, now Germany, by the late 4th century poet Ausonius ; about the same time, these mill types seem also to be indicated by the Christian saint Gregory of Nyssa from Anatolia, demonstrating a diversified use of water-power in many parts of the Roman Empire.

By the mid-20th century many rhyming slang expressions used the names of contemporary personalities, especially actors and performers: for example " Gregory Peck " meaning " neck " and also " cheque "; " Ruby Murray " meaning " curry "; " Alans ", meaning " knickers " from Alan Whicker ; " Max Miller " meaning " pillow " when pronounced / ˈpilə / and " Henry Halls ".

Gregory XII then sent representatives to Constance, whom he granted full powers to summon, open and preside over an Ecumenical Council ; he also empowered them to present his resignation to the Papacy.

His films include To Hell and Back, the autobiography of Audie Murphy, who is considered the most decorated soldier in the military history of the United States ; John Wayne's war film The Green Berets ( 1968 ), and opposite Gregory Peck in the space story Marooned about three stranded astronauts.

Some of Pope Gregory the Great ’ s letters survive that relate to the mission of St. Augustine to Kent in 597 ; these letters provide information about the mission specifically, but also can be used to draw conclusions about the state of Kent and its relationships with its neighbours.

Gregory, however, also says that he thinks that Ingoberg was seventy years old in 589 ; and this would make her about forty when she married Charibert.

It is mentioned by various writers from the fourth century onwards, notably by Pope Gregory the Great, to whose influence may ultimately be due the frequent occurrence of it in Bibles written in England ; for it is commoner in English Bibles than in others.

Raimi became extremely overheated, to the point that his costume was literally filled with liters of sweat ; special effects artist Gregory Nicotero describes pouring the fluid into several Dixie cups so as to get it out of the costume.

Gregory of Nazianzus ( c. 329 – January 25 389 or 390 ) ( also known as Gregory the Theologian or Gregory Nazianzen ; ) was a 4th-century Archbishop of Constantinople.