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Boniface VII, who attained the papal chair in 974, is sometimes styled an antipope. He is supposed to have put his predecessor, Benedict VI, to death. A popular tumult compelled him to flee to Constantinople; but he carried with him vast treasure, and in 984 he returned and removed by murder, [John XIV]?, who had been elected in his room. He died in 985 or 986.


from the 9th edition (1880s) of an unnamed encyclopedia


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