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People: Berengar of Tours
Topic: Muslim Civil War of 1102-8
Location: Welshpool Montgomeryshire United Kingdom

Otto III and Pope Gregory V had …

Years: 998 - 998

Otto III and Pope Gregory V had begun the process of reviving the Diocese of Halberstadt after the death, in November 996, of its Bishop, who had been one of the masterminds behind the abolition of the bishopric of Merseburg.

Otto I had established the Diocese in 968 following his victory over the Hungarians in order to Christianize the Polabian Slavs but had been effectively destroyed in 983 with the Great Slav Rising following the death of Otto II in 983.