PersonAD 604

Pope Gregory I

Also called: Gregory the Great

Pope (590–604) who defended Rome by negotiating with the Lombards and sent missionaries to the Anglo-Saxons, laying the foundations of papal power

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AD 590 – AD 604Gregory the Great and the Rise of the Papacyleader
Pope Gregory I protected Rome from the Lombards and sent missionaries to the Anglo-Saxons, laying the foundations for the Roman Church to become the spiritual centre of Western Europe.

Medieval Europe and ByzantiumAD 476 – 1077
From the fall of Rome in the West to Canossa — the feudal West built by the Franks and the papacy, Byzantium as heir of Rome, and a church divided east and west