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Anselmo da Baggio ( April ) reigned as&#;Pope Alexander II from 30 September to 21 April , succeeding Pope Nicholas II and preceding Pope Gregory VII. Under his rule, he gave blessing to William the Conqueror for his conquest of the Kingdom of England.

Biography[]

Anselmo da Baggio was born in to a noble family in the County of Milan, and he became Bishop of Lucca. In he was elected as pope, but the Holy Roman Empire did not agree, and they installed Antipope Honorius II in Basel. However, Honorius was deposed by Mantua, allowing for Alexander to have unchallenged rule. In , he told Landulf VI of Benevento that conversion of Jews was not to be obtained by force, and he also called for a crusade against the Moors.

In , Pope Alexander II gave William the Conqueror of the Duchy of Normandy his blessing for an invasion of the Kingdom of England, also giving him a papal ring and an edict to the Church of England ordering them to submit to William. After the Battle of Hastings,

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Pope Alexander II

Pope Alexander II (died 21 April ), born Anselmo da Baggio,^[1] was Pope from 30 September to his death in

Life

He was born in Milan of a noble family.^[2] As Anselm I, bishop of Lucca, he had been an energetic coadjutor with Hildebrand of Sovana in endeavouring to suppress simony and enforce the clerical celibacy. The papal election of , which Hildebrand had arranged in conformity with the papal decree of (see Pope Nicholas II), was not sanctioned bygd the imperial court of Germany. True to the practice observed in preceding papal elections, the German court nominated another candidate, Cadalus, bishop of Parma, who was proclaimed Pope at the council of Basel under the name of Honorius II. He marched to Rome and for a long time threatened his rival's position. At length, however, Honorius was forsaken by the German court and deposed bygd a council held at Mantua; Alexander II's position remained unchallenged.

In , Pope Alexander II wrote to Béranger, Viscou

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Pope Alexander II

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Reigned

As Anselm of Lucca, he had been recognized for a number of years as one of the leaders of the reform party, especially in the Milanese territory, where he was born at Baggio, of noble parentage. Together with Hildebrand, he had imbibed in Cluny the zeal for reformation.

The first theatre of his activity was Milan, where he was one of the founders of the Pataria, and lent to that great agitation against simony and clerical incontinency the weight of his eloquence and noble birth.

The device of silencing him, contrived by Archbishop Guido and other episcopal foes of reform in Lombardy, viz. sending him to the court of the kejsare Henry III, had the contrary effect of enabling him to spread the propaganda in Germany. In the Emperor appointed him to