Boniface VII

noun

1. antipope a.d. 974, 984–985.

Example Sentences

Boniface VII. the usurper of the Holy See, after having plundered the churches, fled with his booty to Constantinople: they hesitated not to fill his place, and the imperial influence determined the election in favor of Benedict VII. who belonged to the family of Alberic, now counts of Tusculum; a powerful family, by whom the Emperor Otho II. and his agents, strengthened the German party.

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Boniface VII. imprisoned Benedict VII., and starved him to death.

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He had, to dispute his rank, Boniface VII., who, murderer of two popes, had become Pope himself.

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This was constantly acknowledged by the parliaments, and also by the clergy of France, in the excommunications pronounced by Boniface VII., against Philip the Fair; by Julius II., against Louis XII.; by Sixtus V., against Henry III.; by Gregory XIII., against Henry IV.; and it is likewise the doctrine of the celebrated assembly of the clergy in 1682.

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Then the family set up an antiPope, Boniface VII, who had Benedict strangled in prison.

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