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Also Known As Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte
Born September 10, 1487 • Rome • Italy
Died March 23, 1555 (aged 67) • Rome • Italy
Title / Office pope (1550-1555)

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Pope Gregory VII, after his expulsion from Rome, laying a ban of excommunication on the clergy “together with the raging king” (Henry IV of Germany), drawing from the 12th-century chronicle of Otto of Freising; in the library of the University of Jena, Germany.
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