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Peter Damian, extending the area of his activities, has entered into communication with the Emperor Henry III.

He had been present in Rome when Clement II crowned Henry III and his consort Agnes, and he also attends a synod held at the Lateran in the first days of 1047, in which decrees are passed against simony.

Clement II's short pontificate, starting with the Roman synod of 1047, initiates an improvement in the state of affairs within the Roman Church, particularly by enacting decrees against simony.

A dispute for precedence among the Sees of Ravenna, Milan, and Aquileia is settled in favor of Ravenna.

Clement's election is criticized by the reform party within the papal curia due to the royal involvement and the fact that the new Pope is already bishop of another diocese.

Contrary to later practice, Clement keeps his old see, governing both Rome and Bamberg simultaneously.

Clement, proceeding with Henry to Germany, canonizes Wiborada, a nun of St. Gall, martyred by the Hungarians in 925.

On his way back to Rome, he dies near Pesaro in October 1047.

His corpse is transferred back to Bamberg, which he had loved dearly, and interred in the western choir of the Bamberg Cathedral.

His is the only tomb of a Pope north of the Alps.

A toxicologic examination of his remains in the mid-twentieth century confirmed centuries-old rumors that the Pope had been poisoned with lead sugar.

It is not clear, however, whether he was murdered or whether the lead sugar was used as medicine.

...Pesaro.

...favoring trade with Pesaro, also in the Marche, which has accepted the Jewish refugees.

The plan fails due to internal divisions in the Jewish community over fear of further persecution.

Italian architect Giovanni Brega begins work in 1904 on a small villa overlooking the sea in Italy's Marche region, commissioned by Italian pharmaceutical industrialist Oreste Ruggeri.

Brega completes the Villa Ruggeri (also known as Villino Ruggeri) in 1908.

The stucco ornament features flowing, sinuous lines and the decorative wrought iron balconies and gates are characteristic of the stile floreale, stile Inglese, or stile Liberty.