Pope John XIX

John XIX. (* Unknown in Rome, † October 1032 ibid ), actually Romanus of Tusculum, was Pope 1024-1032.

He was born the son of the Count and Imperial Admiral Gregory of Tusculum from the family of Tusculans that dominated at that time Rome. Under his brother, Pope Benedict VIII, he was with the titles of consul and senator Dux secular ruler of Rome and the Campagna.

Romanus was after the death of his brother by simony and the threat of violence as a second family of Tusculum Pope and took the name John XIX. of. Since he was at this time like his brother nor layman, he received counter- canon all ordinations in one day. John was considered a secular -oriented, greedy and fickle. The chronicler Rodulfus Glaber Cluny claimed that this even wanted to sell the rights primacy of the Pope to the Patriarch of Constantinople and could be prevented with difficulty to it.

On March 26, 1027 issued by Pope John Konrad II and his wife Gisela crowned emperor. He made Konrad, of which he was politically dependent, various concessions; so he took about at the request of the emperor, the Cluniac reform in protection.

For the pontificate of John XIX. different data are mentioned in the literature, both the beginning and the end of which vary by several months. For the data beginning from February to July 1024 are specified, the end of which should have lain between April 1032 and January 1033.