The main highlights of the second's rule was breaking a Roman hold on the papacy by appointing Peter of Pavia as John XIV and being defeated at Calbaria by the Saracens.
The main highlights of the second's rule was breaking a Roman hold on the papacy by appointing Peter of Pavia as John XIV and being defeated at Calbaria by the Saracens. His successor, the third bearer of this name, was advised by Adalbert of Prague and called on to suppress John Crescentius' appointment of an anti-pope to Gregory V, which resulted in his bestowing the papacy on Gerbert of Aurillac as Sylvester II. The fourth and final one was the only Welf to become emperor, but was defeated at the Battle of Bouvines, after which Frederick II restored the Hohenstaufen Dynasty. The first holder of this name was the son of Henry the Fowler and founded an eponymous Saxon Dynasty. FTP, give this first name of the man who stomped the Magyars at Lechfeld in 955 to become the first true Holy Roman Emperor.
The main highlights of the second's rule was breaking a Roman hold on the papacy by appointing Peter of Pavia as John XIV and being defeated at Calbaria by the Saracens.
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