Leo IX

American

noun

Saint Bruno, 1002–54, German ecclesiastic: pope 1049–54.

Leo IX British

noun

Saint, original name Bruno of Egisheim. 1002–54, pope (1049–54): first of the great medieval reforming popes. Conflict with the Eastern Church led to the schism between Rome and Constantinople (1054). Feast day: April 19

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Yet Henry maintained the independence of the clergy against the pope Leo IX., and claimed Lorraine from the emperor Henry III.

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The pope excited the Greek emperor Manuel to arm against the emperor of the West, and attempted to reconcile the two churches, separated since the pontificate of Leo IX.

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In 1049, however, he again appeared in Italy, this time in the r�le of companion to the new pontiff, Leo IX.

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He was not even the first pope to renew the injunction in the 11th century, for legislation on the question begins as early as in the reign of Leo IX.

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Pope Leo IX. commanded an army consisting of Italian volunteers, several bands of robbers, and seven hundred Suabians.

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