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Albert
antipope
Quick Facts
- Also called:
- Adalbert, or Aleric
- Flourished:
- 12th century
- Flourished:
- c.1101 - c.1150
- Title / Office:
- antipope (1102-1102)
Albert (flourished 12th century) was an antipope in 1101. He was cardinal bishop of Silva Candida when elected early in 1101 as successor to the antipope Theodoric of Santa Ruffina, who had been set up against the legitimate pope, Paschal II, by an imperial faction supporting the Holy Roman emperor Henry IV in his struggle with Paschal for supremacy. Albert’s uncanonical investiture provoked rioting in Rome, and he was stripped of his insignia and briefly imprisoned in the Lateran. He was then sentenced to confinement in the monastery of San Lorenzo, north of Naples, where he remained a monk the ...(100 of 101 words)