Crescentius II | Roman patrician | Britannica (original) (raw)

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• execution by Otto III
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    In Otto III
    …Emperor’s return to Germany by Crescentius, who then installed John XVI as pope. The Emperor marched back into Italy in late 997; taking Rome in February 998, he executed Crescentius, deposed John, and reinstated Gregory.
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• John XVI
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    In John XVI
    …while he was in Germany, Crescentius II led a revolt that usurped Gregory’s office. John returned from Constantinople, and Crescentius, planning to ally Rome with Byzantium against Otto, offered John the papacy. Over the protests of his friend Abbot St. Nilus of Rossano, John accepted. In 997 the exiled Gregory…
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• Sergius IV
  • In Sergius IV
    …Roman nobles and the patrician Crescentius II, head of the Crescentii, an infamously powerful Roman family that manipulated the papacy from the mid-10th to the early 11th century.
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