Leo VII

Pope, a Roman, sometimes called Leo VI, succeeded John XI, the son of Marozia, January 8, 936. He mediated peace between Alberic, duke of Rome, and Hugo, king of Italy, who had offered to marry Marozia, in order to obtain by her means the possession of Rome, but was driven away by Alberic, also Marozia's son. Leo is said to have been a man of irreproachable conduct, but little is known of him. He died in 939, and was succeeded by Stephen VIII. We have of him an epistola to Hugo, abbot of St. Martin of Tours, published in D'Achery's Spicilegium; two others to Gerard, archbishop of Lorch, and to the bishops of France and Germany. See Mabillon, Annales Ordinis S. Benedicti, vols. 2 and 4; Muratori, Rerum Italicarum Scriptores, vol. 3; Fleury, Hist. Ecclesiast.; Baronius, Arnsnl. cent. 10; Bower, Hist. of the Popes, 5:97 sq.; Reichel, Roman See in the Middle Ages, p. 121; Baxmann, Politik der Pipste, 2:93; Herzog, Real-Encyklop. 8:316; English Cyclopaedia; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, 30:712.