Antipope Boniface VII
Boniface VII, who attained the papal chair in
974, is sometimes styled an
antipope. He is supposed to have put
Benedict VI to death. A popular tumult compelled him to flee to
Constantinople; but he carried off a vast treasure, and returned in
984 and removed by murder,
John XIV, who had been elected in his absence. He died in 985 or 986.
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