Key Facts
 Other names Sergius
 Born  
 Location  Rome, Italy
Bloodline Tusculum
Married Yes.
Children Yes.
Position Pope 897 and (904-911)
Died April 911


  Background
  Sergius was the son of "Benedictus", and came from the ancient Roman family of Tusculum, or the Counts of Tusculum who rose to power according to a clear political agenda of ensuring their state and ecclesiatic power remained.
  Sergius III and his party opposed Pope Formosus (891–896), who ordained him bishop of Caere (Cerveteri) – in order to remove him from Rome, as an unsympathetic source records. He was his faction's unsuccessful candidate for the papacy in 896; when Pope John IX (898–900) was elected instead, he excommunicated Sergius III, who had to withdraw from his see at Cerveteri for safety
  Elected Pope in 897, Sergius III was forcibly exiled by Lambert, duke of Spoleto,
 

When antipope Christopher (903–904) seized the seat of St. Peter by force, the Theophylact faction of Romans revolted and ejected him in 903–904. They then invited Sergius III to come out of retirement. His return is marked as January 29, 904.
  Back in power, Sergius III now annulled all the ordinations of Formosus and demanded all bishops ordained by Formosus be reordained, an unwelcome decision reversed again after his death. Sergius III honoured Pope Stephen VI (896–897), who had been responsible for the "Cadaver Synod" that had condemned and mutilated the corpse of Pope Formosus, and placed a laudatory remark on Stephen VI's tombstone. He then reportedly had the much-abused corpse of Formosus exhumed once more, tried, found guilty again, and beheaded, thus in effect conducting a second Cadaver Synod
  His nemeses, Pope Leo V (903) and Antipope Christopher, both died in 904, allegedly strangled in prison on the order of Sergius.
  He was said to be the father of Marozia, daughter of Theodora who was married to Theophylact, who held the title of Senator and one of the most powerful men in Rome at the time.
  It is also a long standing historic belief that Sergius III fathered several illegitimate children with his daughter Marozia, including a son who would be later crowned Pope XI.
  Sergius III restored the Lateran Palace, which had been shattered by an earthquake in 896. He is the first pope to be depicted wearing the triple-crowned papal tiara
  Most Evil Crimes
 
 List of most evil crimes
Type Year Crime
904 Of Murder: (904 CE) That Pope Sergius III did murder Pope Leo V to obtain the office and control of the Roman Catholic Church.
900-911 Of open heresy: (900-911 CE) That Pope Sergius III did openly commit heresy concerning the laws of the church by fathering numerous children.
904 - 911 Of moral indecency and depravity: (904 - 911) That Pope Sergius III did openly and regularly practice Satanism, including sexual orgies, drug fuelled ritual murders of children in and upon the altar of St Peters consistent with the ancient rites of his forefathers and original Jewish Sadducee founders of Christianity. Furthermore, that Pope Sergius III did strip the convents of Nuns from any pretence of holiness and returned them to being prostitutes for the male clergy as had been their original purpose for the church five hundred years earlier.
904 - 911 Of repeated incest: (904 - 911) That Pope Sergius III did commit repeated incest upon all his children, male and female and did father several illegitimate children with his daughter Marozie which he then made his mistress. That one of these children fathered by Pope Sergius III and his own daughter became Pope John X, also known as Pope John XI and also known as Pope John XII.
     
   

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