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Also known as Pope Sergius III

pope (860-911)

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Sergius III was a male Catholic priest and politician who served as Pope. Born in Rome in 860, he held citizenship in the Papal States and worked in Rome and the Papal States. His religious affiliation was with the Catholic Church. He is noted as being influenced by pornocracy and had an unmarried partner named Marozia.

Sergius III died on April 14, 911, in Rome, with poison listed as the cause of death. He was buried in St. Peter's Basilica. He had a child named John XI. The individual is described in sources including the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary and The Catholic Encyclopedia.

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Pope Sergius III (c. 860 − 14 April 911) was the bishop of Rome and nominal ruler of the Papal States from 29 January 904 to his death. He was pope during a period of violence and disorder in central Italy, when warring aristocratic factions sought to use the material and military resources of the papacy. At the behest of Theophylact I of Tusculum, Sergius seized the papal throne from Antipope Christopher, who in turn had deposed Pope Leo V.

Sergius' reign was subsequently marked by Theophylact's influence. As pope, Sergius continued many ecclesiastical controversies of his predecessors, including conflict over Pope Formosus' legacy, annulling all ordinations made by the late pope, and the filioque controversy with eastern patriarchs. His pontificate was similarly marked by temporal conflicts, with Sergius' refusal to crown Berengar I of Italy as Holy Roman Emperor, and his support of Byzantine Emperor Leo VI the Wise's fourth marriage. Sergius also saw the restoration of the Lateran Palace.

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