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VICTOR II

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 25 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: VAN-VIR
VICTOR II ., the successor of Leo IX., was consecrated in St Peter's, Rome, on the 13th of April 1055. His father was a Swabian baron, Count Hartwig von Calw, and his own baptismal name was Gebhard. At the instance of Gebhard, bishop of Regensburg, uncle of the emperor
Henry
  III., he had been appointed while still a
young
  man to the see of Eichstadt; in this position his
great
  talents soon enabled him to render important services to
Henry
 , whose
chief
  adviser he ultimately became. His nomination to the papacy by Henry, at Mainz, in September 1054, was made at the instance of a Roman deputation headed by Hildebrand, 'whose policy doubtless was to detach from the imperial
interest
  one of its ablest supporters. In June 1055
Victor
  met the emperor at Florence, and held a council, which anew condemned clerical marriages, simony and the alienation of the estates of the church. In the following year he was summoned to Germany to the side of the emperor, and was with him when he died at Botfeld in the Harz on the 5th of October ro56. As guardian of Henry's infant son, and adviser of the empress Agnes,
Victor
  now wielded enormous power, which he began to use with much tact for the maintenance of peace throughout the empire and for strengthening the papacy against the aggressions of the barons. He died shortly after his return to Italy, at Arezzo, on the 28th of July 10J7. His successor was Stephen IX. (Frederick of Lorraine). (L. D.*)


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