DAMASUS II, Pope.** - On the death of Clement II, on 9 October 1047, Benedict IX returned to Rome and succeeded in reoccupying the apostolic see with the help of Marquis Boniface of Tuscany. This, however, displeased the Romans, who sent an embassy to Emperor Henry III to ask him for a new pope. The emperor chose Poppo, bishop of Bressanone, and charged Marquis Boniface to accompany him to Rome. But since the latter refused, Poppo returned to Henry III, who, determined to be obeyed, sent him back to Italy with a threatening letter for the Marquis of Tuscany. The latter finally obeyed: his troops drove Benedict IX out of Rome, where the new Pope was recognized on 17 July 1048 under the name of Damasus II. He died 23 days later at Palestrina, on 9 August 1048, and was buried in St. Lawrence outside the Walls.

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BIBL.: L. Duchesne, Les premiers temps de l'Etat pontifical, 3rd ed., Paris 1911, p. 387; F. Gregorovius, Storia della città di Roma nel medio evo, new ed., VI, Rome 1940, pp. 123-26.

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