Damasus II

He was forcibly removed, and succeeded by Damasus II.

Returning to Germany in 1047 he appointed two popes, Damasus II. and Leo IX., in quick succession, and turned to face a threatening combination in the west of the empire, where Godfrey of Lorraine was again in revolt, and with the help of Baldwin V., count of Flanders and Dirk IV., count of Holland, who had previously caused trouble to Henry, was ravaging the lands of the emperor’s representatives in Lorraine.

Within the portico are four splendid sarcophagi; that on the left of the entrance is adorned with reliefs representing a vintage, with cupids as the vine-gatherers, and contains the remains of Pope Damasus II., who died in 1049, after a reign of only twenty-three days.

Damasus II., pope from the 17th of July to the 9th of August 1048, was the ephemeral successor of Clement II.

The first Pope, who caused himself to be crown’d, was Damasus II. in the Year 1048.