Pope Victor meets the Emperor at Florence …
Years: 1055 - 1055
July
Pope Victor meets the Emperor at Florence in June 1055 and holds a council, which reinforces Pope Leo IX's condemnation of clerical marriage, simony, and the loss of the church's properties.
Henry arrests Beatrice for marrying a traitor, together with her daughter Matilda, who is later to be such an enemy of Henry's son and successor.
The young Frederick of Tuscany, son of Beatrice, refuses to come to Florence and dies within days.
The margraviate passes to his sister Matilda.
Locations
People
- Baldwin V of Flanders
- Beatrice of Bar
- Frederick of Tuscany
- Godfrey III, Duke of Lower Lorraine
- Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor
- Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor
- Matilda of Tuscany
- Peter Damian
- Pope Victor II
Groups
- Papal States (Republic of St. Peter)
- Tuscany, Margravate of
- Flanders, County of
- German, or Ottonian (Roman) Empire
- Italy, Kingdom of (Holy Roman Empire)
- Lorraine (Lothier), Lower, (second) Duchy of
- Christians, Roman Catholic
