Giovanni (Gallina Alba) di Gallina Alba

Born [date unknown] in Rome, Holy Roman Empire

Died 1 Apr 0996 in San Pietro, Holy Roman Empire

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Biography

Pope John XV (Gallina Alba) di Gallina Alba is Notable.

He was the son of a Roman Presbyter and was born in the Roman quarter of Gallian Alba.^[1][2]

He became pope in August 985 taking the name John XV.^[2][1]

Platina^[3] states:

John the Fifteenth, a Roman, son of Leo, a priest, born in the ward of Gallina Bianca, being got into the popedom.

They write that a comet appeared about this time, portending the coming calamity, for there followed a long pestilence and famine, and both Beneventum and Capua suffered much by an earthquake, and these were generally looked upon as judgments for the pride and rapacious temper of the Pope, and his contempt of God and man.

His pontificate ended in March 996^[1] and he died on 1 April 996 of fever at San Pietro.^[2]

Research Notes

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Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Vatican
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Wikipedia Papa Giovanni XV
3. ↑ Platina, Bartolomeo (1479) The Lives of the Popes From the Time of Our Saviour Jesus Christ to the Accession of Gregory VII, I, London: Griffith Farran & Co., p260-261, retrieved 2021-04-04.