Pope Stephen IX
?–1058 CE · Metz
Frederick of Lorraine, brother of Duke Godfrey the Bearded, was a leading reformer who served as a papal legate to Constantinople in 1054 and later became abbot of Monte Cassino and cardinal. Elected Stephen IX in 1057, he advanced the Gregorian reform agenda and is credited with promoting Hildebrand and Peter Damian. He contemplated ambitious plans, possibly aimed at curbing Norman power and elevating his ducal family. His pontificate lasted under eight months before he died at Florence in 1058, but it strengthened the reformers' grip on the Curia ahead of the decisive electoral reforms under his successor.
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About Metz
Metz, in Lorraine in northeastern France, was the Roman town of Divodurum and, from the sixth to eighth centuries, a residence of the Merovingian kings of Austrasia. A largely self-governing city of the Holy Roman Empire from the twelfth century, it passed to France in 1552. Its Gothic cathedral of Saint-Étienne dates from the thirteenth century, and the preacher Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet served there as canon and archdeacon in the 1650s. Jews are recorded from at least 888, and medieval scholars such as Eliezer ben Samuel were linked to the city. Jews were readmitted after the French takeover, and the community grew to nearly 3,000 by 1748, keeping a yeshiva and choosing rabbis such as Jonah Teomim-Fraenkel and Jonathan Eybeschütz (1742-1750).
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