. The age of Hildebrand. id the acts of theRoman council—a proceeding which Peter Damiani,naturally enough, characterized as * a conspiracyagainst the Roman Church, and a specimen of audac-ity wholly incredible. Hildebrand thereupon as-sembled the cardinals, on the 1st of October, 1061,and caused Anselm of Badagio, Bishop of Lucca, aLombard, to be elected according to the provisionsof the new decree under the title of Alexander prelate was the intimate friend of Hildebrand,and one of the founders of the Pataria; and Hilde-brand hoped to avail himself of his long and friendlyrelations wi
. The age of Hildebrand. id the acts of theRoman council—a proceeding which Peter Damiani,naturally enough, characterized as * a conspiracyagainst the Roman Church, and a specimen of audac-ity wholly incredible. Hildebrand thereupon as-sembled the cardinals, on the 1st of October, 1061,and caused Anselm of Badagio, Bishop of Lucca, aLombard, to be elected according to the provisionsof the new decree under the title of Alexander prelate was the intimate friend of Hildebrand,and one of the founders of the Pataria; and Hilde-brand hoped to avail himself of his long and friendlyrelations with the German court. The newly electedPope was borne in triumph by a crowd of monks infrocks without sleeves, carrying a gourd on their left Election of Alexander II. 51 side and a sack on the right. Some cries were raisedin the crowd: ** Away, lepers! bagmen! but Guis-card, who was present with a strong force of Normanknights, sustained the election, and the imperial par-tisans did not venture to make any CHAPTER VI. CADALOUS—BENZO—HENRY IV.—MILAN. HE election of Alexander was justly re-garded by the Germans as an invasionof imperial rights. The Lombard eccles-iastics, especially those who favoredthe marriage of the clergy, dreaded hiselevation as carrying with it the dominating influ-ence of Hildebrand and of the high monastic number of these, along Vv^ith the German bishops,under the lead of Guibert of Ravenna, the chan-cellor of the empire and administrator of the im-perial interests in Italy, assembled, in October,at Basle, where the Roman envoys had alreadyinvested the ten-year-old Henry IV. with thepatriciate, and elected as Pope Cadalous, Bishop ofParma, who assumed the name of Honorius 11. Itwas a mistake, since Cadalous had neither the geniusnor the power to fight Hildebrand. Damiani repre-sented him as without character or learning, and de-clared that if he should prove himself able to explaina single verse of a psalm or a homily he woul
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