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Benedict IX

Teofilatto di Toscolo · 1045 – 1045 · 30 days · resigned

Back for a second term, which he then sold to his godfather.

Did

• Returned within weeks and expelled Sylvester III.

Didn't

• Keep it: resigned in 1045 in exchange for money from Gregory VI, allegedly so he could marry.

From the record

Pope Benedict IX, born Theophylact of Tusculum in Rome, was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States for three periods between October 1032 and July 1048. Aged about 20 when first elected, he may have been the youngest pope in the history of the Catholic Church. He is the only person to have been pope more than once and the only person ever accused of selling the papacy.

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