Gebhard of Calw is a son of…
April 1055 CE
Gebhard of Calw is a son of the Swabian Count Hartwig of Calw and a kinsman of Emperor Henry III.
At the insistence of Gebhard, Bishop of Ratisbon, the twenty-four-year-old Gebhard had been appointed Bishop of Eichstätt.
In this position, he had supported the Emperor's interests and eventually became one of his closest advisors.
After the death of Pope Leo IX, a Roman delegation headed by Hildebrand had traveled to Mainz and asked the Emperor for the nomination of a successor.
He had suggested Gebhard, who was duly nominated in September 1054.
Taking the name Victor II, Gebhard moves to Rome and is enthroned in St. Peter's Basilica on April 13, 1055.
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