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Key Facts |
| Other names |
Daufer, Dauferius, Landalf |
| Born |
1026 |
| Location |
Benevento, Italy |
| Bloodline |
Princes of Benevento |
| Married |
Yes. |
| Children |
Yes. Pope Urban II |
| Position |
Pope (1084-1086) |
| Died |
September, 1086 |
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Background |
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Daufer (his name was almost certainly Landalf) was the eldest born son to Prince Landulf V of Benevento (1014 – 1033). His younger brother Pandulf would be the 2nd last Prince of Benevento (1033 – 1053). |
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During the reign of Roman Cult leader antiPope Gregory VII protected by the brothers Roger and Robert Borja, the Benevitians had aligned themselves as supporters of the ancient Counts of Tusculum against the Catholic Church. |
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In 1084, a massive force of 36,000 finally broke the siege of Roman Cult Leader Antipope Gregory VII in Rome who had been protected by the mercenary army of Basque native Robert Borja (the Guiscard--which means "sly, crafty"). Robert Borja managed to escape with some of his men, but Antipope Gregory VII was not so lucky and was promptly tried, excommunicated and executed as a heretic of the Catholic Church. Later this historic event was deliberately misconstrued to claim that it was the mercenary army of Robert Borja (the Guiscard), not Emperor Henry IV that liberated Rome from the heretical Roman Cult. |
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Robert Borja then fled to Benevento and Landalf who promptly claimed himself Pontifex Maximus as the heretical Roman Cult AntiPope Victor III (1084–86) against the reign of the true Catholic Pope Clement III (1080, 1084–1100). The elite Norman troops of Henry IV then beseiged Benevento until finally the well fortified city fell in 1086/7 and AntiPope Victor III along with Robert Borja were executed as heretics against the Catholic faith. |
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His son Zotto and the few remaining Roman Cult priests along with the remnants of the Borja mercenary army managed to escape and around 1086 they named Zotto as the new heretical AntiPope Urban II -- Pontifex Maximus of the Roman Cult. |
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During the late Middle Ages, scribes working for the Roman Cult revised the history surrounding this heretical antiPope. |
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Most Evil Crimes |
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List of most evil crimes |
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Of continuing to obtain property by extortion and theft: (1086) That Pope Victor III did continue the false tradition of stealing one denarius from every Christian house in France each year to be paid to the Pope. |
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