Pope Gregory IV

Gregory IV († January 25 844 in Rome) was Pope from 827 to 844, he was elected in October 827 in the Roman church of Santi Cosma e Damiano and brought before his consecration the consent of the Frankish emperor a.

During his pontificate, there was heavy fighting in the Frankish Empire. Louis the Pious had divided the kingdom between his three sons from his first marriage. Having been born in 823 by his second wife nor a son ( Charles the Bald ), he changed the division of the kingdom in its favor.

The trial of Louis the Pious, to respond to Pippin's dominion Aquitaine Karl, led 833 for the collection of all three older sons. Pope Gregory traveled over the Alps and tried in vain to bring about an amicable settlement. Finally, the armies of the counterparty the end of June 833 were on the field at Roth Colmar over for days without it came to a battle. Pope Gregory IV led out of the camp of the Emperor out negotiations with the sons, however, who managed simultaneously to move to and after the partisans of the emperor on their side. Lothar I, Louis 's eldest son, was put Pope in itself. Ludwig was deposed, the Pope realized that he had been abused as a puppet.

Gregory IV sent the Holy Ansgar as a missionary to Scandinavia, bringing the Christianization of the Normans was initiated. In the Byzantine Empire ended in this period, the iconoclastic controversy. In addition, Saints Gregory has, which was in the Eastern Church since Pope Boniface IV celebrated, but laid there on Sunday after Pentecost, for the entire Western Church on November 1. Gregory died on 25 January 844 in Rome.

Pope Gregory IV is considered the originator of the Gregoriusfestes.

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