Benedict VI

Benedict VI. the successor of John XIII. had been dethroned, imprisoned, and strangled, or condemned to die of hunger.

Benedict VI. installed at the end of 972, strangled in 974 136.

Benedict VI, the Emperor's papal candidate, was thrown into prison in 974 by the Crescentii.

In 974 he was substituted by Crescentius and the Roman barons for Benedict VI., who had been assassinated.

In 974 Crescenzio, son of Theodora, committed another sacrilegious murder, that of Benedict VI.