Editing Pope Leo VI (section)

==Family and early career==
Leo VI was born into a [[Rome|Roman]] family,<ref>{{Citation
  | last = Platina
  | first = Bartolomeo
  | author-link = Bartolomeo Platina
  | title = The Lives of the Popes From The Time Of Our Saviour Jesus Christ to the Accession of Gregory VII
  | publisher = Griffith Farran & Co.
  | location = London
  | pages = 247
  | volume = I
  | year= 1479
  | url = https://archive.org/details/thelivesofthepop01platuoft
   | access-date= 2013-04-25
}}</ref> and his father was Christophorus, who had been ''[[primicerius]]'' under [[Pope John VIII]] around the year 876. Tradition has it that he was a member of the Sanguini family.<ref>[[Georgina Masson]], ''The Companion Guide to Rome'' (1980), page 177</ref> Before his pontificate, Leo served as the [[cardinal-priest]] of [[Santa Susanna]].<ref name="m188">Mann, page 188</ref>