Antipope Benedict X | |
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| Elected | 5 April 1058 |
| Papacy began | 5 April 1058 |
| Papacy ended | 24 January 1059 |
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| Died | between 1073 and 1080 Basilica of Sant'Agnese fuori le mura |
| Buried | Basilica of Sant'Agnese |
Benedict X (died 1073/1080), born Giovanni, was elected to succeed Pope Stephen IX on 5 April 1058, but was opposed by a rival faction that elected Nicholas II. He fled Rome on 24 January 1059 and is today generally regarded as an antipope.[1]
He was a son of Guido, Lord of Poli who was the youngest son of Alberic III, Count of Tusculum, a member of the dominant political dynasty in the region at that time.[2] Giovanni was a nephew of the notorious Pope Benedict IX, who was deposed in 1048.[3] Benedict X reportedly later was given the nickname of Mincius (thin) due to his ignorance.[4] His mother was present at his trial in April 1060.[5]
- ^ Mary Stroll, Popes and Antipopes: The Politics of Eleventh Century Church Reform (Brill, 2012), pp. 69–71.
- ^ Gregorovius, p. 111.
- ^ This family link between Benedict IX and Benedict X is set out in Table IV of George L. Williams' Papal Genealogy: The Families and Descendants of the Popes (McFarland, 1998), p. 26.
- ^ Watterich, p. 213, points out that the name is found in Leo Marsicanus, "Chronica Monasterii Cassinensis" II. 99: "...et Joahannem Veliternensem episcopum Minckium postea cognominatum, invitum licet, ut ferunt, in Romana sede papam constituunt"; but that it is found earlier in Peter Damiani, "Opuscula XX: Apologeticus ob dimissum episcopatum" 3 (Migne, Patrologiae Latinae Tomus CXLV (Paris 1844), p. 446.) Watterich also notes, p. 213, note 3, that in modern Italian the word means tenuis ingenii, stultus.
- ^ Watterich, p. 218, from the "Annales Romani".