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* [[October 9]] &ndash; Pope [[Pope Clement II|Clement II]] dies suddenly after a 9-month [[pontificate]]. [[Pope Benedict IX|Benedict IX]] usurps the papal throne as the 150th pope of the [[Catholic Church]] (his third time in the office).<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lkErDwAAQBAJ&q=1047+Pope+Clement+II&pg=PA458|title=Routledge Revivals: Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia|last=Blumenthal|first=Uta-Renate|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=2017|isbn=9781351664462|editor-last=Kleinhenz|editor-first=Christopher|volume=I: A - K|location=London and New York|pages=458|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xPqvCQAAQBAJ&q=1047+Pope+Clement+II&pg=PA123|title=Inventing the Public Sphere: The Public Debate during the Investiture Contest (c. 1030–1122)|last=Melve|first=Leidulf|publisher=BRILL|year=2007|isbn=9789047422754|location=Leiden and Boston|pages=123|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XRkfKdho-5cC&q=1047+Pope+Clement+II&pg=PP210|title=Encyclopedia of World Religions|last1=Becchio|first1=Bruno|last2=Schadé|first2=Johannes P.|publisher=Foreign Media Group|year=2006|isbn=9781601360007|location=Amsterdam and Zurich|pages=2006|language=en}}</ref>
* November &ndash; Benedict IX, with support of [[Boniface III, Margrave of Tuscany]], seizes the [[Lateran Palace]] in [[Rome]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/heirsoffisherman00pham|url-access=registration|quote=1047 Benedict IX.|title=Heirs of the Fisherman: Behind the Scenes of Papal Death and Succession|last=Pham|first=John-Peter|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|isbn=9780195346350|location=Oxford and New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/heirsoffisherman00pham/page/57 57]|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vcDBAgAAQBAJ&q=1047+Benedict+IX+Lateran&pg=PA169|title=A Corrupt Tree: An Encyclopaedia of Crimes committed by the Church of Rome against Humanity and the Human Spirit|last=A.S|publisher=Xlibris Corporation|year=2014|isbn=9781483665375|volume=I: The Unholy Popes and the Debasement of Western Civilization|location=Bloomington, IN|pages=169|language=en|chapter=Benedict IX (1032 - 1044, 1045, 1047 - 1048)}}</ref></onlyinclude>