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Clement, proceeding with Henry to Germany, canonizes Wiborada, a nun of St. Gall, martyred by the Hungarians in 925.

On his way back to Rome, he dies near Pesaro in October 1047.

His corpse is transferred back to Bamberg, which he had loved dearly, and interred in the western choir of the Bamberg Cathedral.

His is the only tomb of a Pope north of the Alps.

A toxicologic examination of his remains in the mid-twentieth century confirmed centuries-old rumors that the Pope had been poisoned with lead sugar.

It is not clear, however, whether he was murdered or whether the lead sugar was used as medicine.