Pope Paschal II
?–1118 CE · Bleda (near Galeata, Romagna)
Raniero, a monk from the Romagna and cardinal-priest, became Paschal II and reigned nearly two decades dominated by the investiture controversy. He continued the struggle against lay investiture and against successive antipopes backed by the empire. In 1111 he was seized by Emperor Henry V and, under duress, made sweeping concessions in the Treaty of Sutri — proposing the church renounce regalian lands — which a synod and outraged reformers swiftly repudiated. Paschal's long pontificate thus illustrates both the persistence and the limits of the reform papacy under imperial pressure, leaving the investiture question unresolved at his death in 1118.
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Bleda (near Galeata, Romagna)Italy
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About Bleda (near Galeata, Romagna)
Bleda is a small locality near Galeata in the Apennine hills of Romagna, in the province of Forlì-Cesena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. The surrounding valley traces its origins to the Umbrian town of Mevaniola, taken by Rome in 266 BCE, and in the Middle Ages it was dominated by the Abbey of Sant'Ellero. Galeata came under Florentine rule in the early fifteenth century, belonged to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany until 1860, and was transferred from the province of Florence to Forlì in 1923. Pope Paschal II (pope 1099-1118), born Raniero, is recorded as a native of Bleda, though some sources name Galeata itself.
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