Dauferio Benevento (1027 - 1087)

Born 1027 in Benevento, Holy Roman Empire

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Biography

Pope Victor III Benevento is Notable.

According to the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani^[1] (Translated from the Italian):

VICTOR III, Pope, blessed. - Dauferio was born in 1027 from a branch of the princely family of Benevento. The Chronicle of Montecassino informs us that his father, Landolfo V del Zotto, prince of Benevento, was killed by the Normans; of the mother there is no news, while from the Dialogi, written later by Dauferio himself, it is known that one of his paternal great-grandmothers, Bella, was a nun at S. Pietro in Benevento.

He changed his name to Desiderio when he became a monk at the Abbey of S. Sophia.^[2][1]

He was elected pope on 24 May 1086 and crowned nearly a year later on 9 May 1087 taking the name Victor III.^[2]

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1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Dizionario-Biografico
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Vatican