Pope Leo IX

1002 - 1054  (51 years)

• Name	Pope Leo IX   [1]
  Born	21 Jun 1002	Alsace, France   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Died	19 Apr 1054	Rome   [3, 4]
  Siblings	4 siblings
  + 1. Hildegarde of Egisheim + 2. Gerhard I ,   d. 1038 + 3. Hugo VII of Egisheim ,   d. Between 1046 and 1049 + 4. Gertrude of Egisheim ,   d. 21 Jul 1077   5. Pope Leo IX ,   b. 21 Jun 1002, Alsace, France ,   d. 19 Apr 1054, Rome  (Age 51 years)
  Person ID	I9323	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	7 Jun 2019

  
  

  Father	Hugo VI of Egisheim,   b. Abt 970
  Mother	Heilwig von Dagsburg,   d. 1046
  Family ID	F4275	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Born Bruno of Egisheim-Dagsburg. Pope from 12 Feb 1049 to 1054. Noted as a reformer who travelled throughout Italy, France, and Germany rooting out nepotism and simony, and as one of the initiators of the more long-term project of wresting control of the Church from the Emperors and the Roman nobility. These efforts were particularly supported by Edward the Confessor, with whom he had a warm relationship. When it proved impossible for Edward to undertake a promised pilgrimage to Rome, Leo released him from his vow and accepted his plan to refound Westminster Abbey. Although he and Edward never met, it is believed that Leo was in fact visited by another notable from the British Isles: King Macbeth of Scotland, who while in Rome, according to the chronicler Marianus Scotus, "gave money to the poor as if it were seed." Leo was also responsible for promulgating the fraudulent "Donation of Constantine", in negotiations with the Eastern church which led to the final "Great Schism". It is unknowable whether he genuinely believed in that document's authenticity. His last great project entailed commanding a military expedition against the Normans in southern Italy. Upon its defeat he was taken prisoner, but treated respectfully and released. In his final months in Rome he placed his bed and his coffin side by side. He was canonized by Gregory VII in 1082. His feast day is April 19.

  
  

• Sources

  [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008. [S346] The Oxford Dictionary of Saints by David Hugh Farmer. Oxford University Press, 1978., year and place only. [S49] Genealogics, by Leo Van de Pas. [S346] The Oxford Dictionary of Saints by David Hugh Farmer. Oxford University Press, 1978., year only.