Pope Alexander II (1010 - 1073). (Part Four).

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However, it was a shortage of supplies, sickness, and bribery on the part of the Normans that brought Godfrey to negotiate with Jordan and finally to return North. 

A new treaty between the Papacy and the Normans was negotiated, and at the Synod held at Melfi by Pope Alexander on 1 August 1067, Prince Richard returned to his allegiance and was confirmed as Duke of Apulia and Calabria.[23]

In April 1063, Pope Alexander held a Synod at the Lateran Basilica in Rome, attended by more than a hundred Bishops. During the Synod, he excommunicated Honorius II (the Anti-Pope) (Bishop Cadalo).

The Pope and Bishops also decreed:

That no mercy was to be shown to Simoniacs by preserving their dignity;

That those who had been Ordained by Simoniacs were to be retained in their Orders;

In the case of a knowing Consecration of a Simoniac, both Simoniac and Consecrator were to be deprived of their Offices;

That a Priest who has a wife or mistress should not say Mass;

That no Cleric should receive a Church from a Layman, whether “gratis” or “for pay”;

That no Priest should hold two Churches;

That no-one should be made a Monk on the understanding that he would become Abbot;

That a Layman who becomes a Cleric should change his costume.[24]

In a Letter of 15 May 1063, Pope Alexander ordered the Archbishops of Reims, Sens, Tours, Bourges, and Bordeaux, to obey his Legate, Cardinal Peter Damiani, Bishop of Ostia, “who is our own eye and the immovable Foundation of the Apostolic See.”[25]

He also forbade Gervase, Archbishop of Reims, from Consecrating Jocelyn as Bishop of Soissons, on the grounds that he was a Simoniac.[26]

On 6 May 1065, Pope Alexander held a Council in Rome, attended by at least eight Cardinals and forty-three Bishops. It is known that the privileges of the Monastery of Saint Denis in Paris were confirmed, and it was granted the privilege of being exempt from the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Paris.[27]

In 1067, Pope Alexander made a tour of the Southern Cities of The Papal States and of the Kingdom of Naples, holding a Synod in Melfi, in October, and then later in the year at Siponto.[28]

PART FIVE FOLLOWS.