Pope Alexander II was born with the given name of Anselm of Baggio in the year A.D., and died in A.D. He began his reign as Pope in the year 1061 A.D. and ended his reign in the year 1073 A.D., during the High Middle Ages. Alexander II was from Milan, and his papal number is: 156 out of 267 officially recognized Roman Catholic Popes.
Summary: Reforming pope who prepared the way for the Gregorian age.
Biography:Alexander II governed during a long and important pontificate that consolidated many of the impulses of eleventh-century reform. He supported clerical discipline, opposed simony, and strengthened papal influence across Western Christendom.
His close association with reform circles, including Hildebrand who would become Gregory VII, made his reign a bridge between institutional preparation and the more dramatic conflicts to come. He also supported Norman and Iberian Christian causes in a wider reforming vision of Christendom.
Blessed Alexander II is remembered as a patient builder of reform whose work prepared the ground for the most famous papal struggles of the Middle Ages.
