Their sufferings were real and prolonged, but had they been guilty of participating in the election of an antipope they would have had but the choice between perpetual imprisonment and the stake.
Submission of theAntipope 149 Struggle in Germany.
With the downfall of the antipope and the triumph of John they were once more proscribed.
In that same year the monk Sigebert, who was by no means a follower of the antipope Alberto, was scandalized at the savage cruelty of Paschal II.
The emperor drove Gelasius from Rome in March, pronounced his election null and void, and set up Burdinus, archbishop of Braga, as antipope under the name of Gregory VIII.
There is a very curious letter of an emissary of Becket, describing the death of the Antipope (he died at Lucca, April 21).
The patrician was a brother of the antipope Anaclet; the thirteen districts of Rome concurred in the choice of these fifty-six senators.
Peter of Leon, antipope under the name of Anaclet, and after him, Gregory or Victor IV.
Jordan, the brother of the antipope Anacletus, obtained the office, and the violent death of the next Pope, Lucius the Second, was one of the first events of his domination.
He so much surprised the cardinals, as soon as they had elected him, by his vigorous moral reforms that they hastily retired to Anagni and elected an antipope of milder manners and less sensitive conscience.
Neither Crescenzio nor his followers had believed that the young Emperor was in earnest; but when it was clear that he meant to do justice, Antipope John was afraid, and fled secretly by night, in disguise.
Then the Emperor was filled with pity, and answered that the saint might have the antipope alive, if he himself would then remain in Rome and direct the monastery of Saint Anastasia of the Greeks.
He was a Greek, like John of Calabria, and though he detested the antipope he had pity on the man and felt compassion for his countryman.
These, with other verses written in tears, relate to schisms of pope and antipope which so often rent the papacy in Peter's lifetime.
Raymond of Toulouse, whose power was virtually that of an independent sovereign, adhered to Frederic Barbarossa, acknowledged the antipope Victor and his successors, and cared nothing for Alexander III.
Rome by Frederic Barbarossa and his antipope Victor, and came to France, he called, in 1163, a great council at Tours.
Innocent was extolled by contemporaries as a lover of peace and honesty, but he was without energy, guilty of nepotism, and showed no favour to the proposal that he as well as the antipope should resign.
But this attempt to set up an antipope came to very little.
He had taken a strong part against Pope Eugenius at Basel, and had even been secretary to the old duke-antipope Felix.
Lewis answered the pope by setting up an antipope against him.
Next after the bishops came the Antipope Pascal in full Pontifical robes, surrounded by the prelates of his court.
She was a relative of the Antipope Victor, whose cause she warmly espoused, and, consequently, did all in her power to further an alliance between Louis and Barbarossa.
Eberhard's reputation in Italy was wide-spread, and this refusal to hold any communication with the Antipope was naturally calculated to displease the Emperor.
Barbarossa and the high-priest Caiphas (the Antipope Pascal).
In December the adherents of the Antipope were lying in wait to take Frate Raimondo, whom the Pope was sending on a dangerous mission to France, and the good friar's courage failed him.
Hitherto there had been an antipapal tendency in the poet's movements; he had been involved in the more or less schismatical Council, had been friendly with and on the point of entering the service of the Savoyard antipope Felix.
Now, I myself am looking for a great reformer, but he must be an antipope; not antipope in the narrow, historical sense, but an antipope in the Lutheran sense of the word.
Antipope of Avignon, and it was probably only a move in the political game of the Great Schism.
But the antipope was now dead; and though the Emperor had raised up a second in the person of Guido of Crema, Alexander had returned to Italy, and recovered possession of Rome.
Emperor Frederick Barbarossa defeats the Sicilian auxiliaries of Pope Alexander, captures Rome, and seats Antipope Paschal.
But the galleys of the antipope sought to debar the passage; and Raimondo, accepting the obstacle (one imagines with much ease), allowed himself to give up the expedition.
So she writes, out of trance, to the Cardinal Pietro di Luna--himself destined to become later the antipope Benedict XIII.
Under these circumstances the antipope again marched towards Rome in 1063 and entered the city, but was soon forced to take refuge in the castle of St Angelo.
The matter was not decided till 1378 when Joanna, having made the mistake of recognizing the antipope Clement VII.
Anxious to secure the support of France, the antipope Clement VII.
On the next day he threw his gold to the rabble and they elected his Antipope Gilbert, who called himself Clement the Third, and certain bishops from North Italy consecrated him in the Lateran on Palm Sunday.
Conqueror's rules, and Lanfranc writes that "our island" had not yet decided between Gregory and the antipope Clement.
With his antipope he entered it, receiving from his hands the imperial crown.
Louis of Bavaria, nor of the antipope Nicholas; they belong merely to political history.
