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Charlemagne, The Father of Europe, died in the year 814 and left only one surviving son to take the helm of the Carolingian Empire, which spanned the lion's share of the European continent. But his heir, Louis the Pious, had three sons, who each got a parcel of the empire when he died. Then those kings had children of their own, dividing the kingdom up until factions and branches of Charlemagne's lineage occupied independent power centers from the border of modern Denmark all the way down to Italy south of Rome. Our story today involves several of those Carolingian kings, and two priests who would become popes. Bishop Formosus served the Vatican as a diplomat on numerous missions in Europe, developing close ties to the Frankish kings to the north of Rome, the sons of the sons of Charlemagne. When his winding road to the Papacy finally made him Pope Formosus, he found himself at odds - even militarily - with the southern wing of the family, the Dukes of Spoleto, the sons of the daughters of Charlemagne. After Formosa's death, the Dukes of Spoleto reasserted their power, installing a new pope, Stephen VI, who exacted the southern family's revenge on Formosus and their northern kin by exhuming Formosus's rotten corpse and holding an infamously gruesome public trial. Formosus was obviously convicted, but the episode condemned Stephen VI in the moment and for the ages. Listen ad-free at patreon.com/trashyroyalspodcast. To advertise on this podcast, reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we explore the shocking Cadaver Synod of 897 AD, a bizarre trial of the deceased Pope Formosus conducted by his successor, Pope Stephen VI. Driven by political intrigue and personal vendetta, the scandalous event involved exhuming Formosus' corpse, leading to widespread outrage and significant repercussions for the papacy. Join us as we delve into this dark chapter of church history and its implications on papal power dynamics.

First off, we discuss last week's episode and some of the feedback I received (a HUGE thank you to all who took the time to comment!).Then, it's the battle of the orangey/black dwarfs as Davus pentaloris "The Tiger Rump" takes on Hapalopus formosus "The Pumpkin Patch"! 

THE VATICAN ARCHIVES 1. The Chief Exorcist of the Vatican Performed 100,000+ Exorcisms Although exorcism is believed to be a practice only seen in horror movies and is the Middle Ages, the practice continues to be alive in the Catholic Church. Father Gabriele Amorth is a late Priest and served as the chief exorcist of the Vatican. He served for 60 years, and is believed to have performed approximately 160,000 exorcisms. The exorcism rite, however, is not just limited to the late chief exorcist. It has been performed by various Popes over the years. In 2018, BBC reported that the Vatican welcomed 250 priests from across the world to an annual workshop. 2. The Vatican Helped Nazi War Criminals Escape the Allied Forces After the victory of the Allied Forces in Germany to end World War II, the Nazis were forced to seek refuge outside Europe. Thousands of Nazis managed to escape to South American countries, specifically Argentina, Chile, and Brazil. Harvard researcher Gerald Steinacher wrote a book that shows travel documents pointing to the Vatican having helped the Nazis travel to these countries. Steinacher argues that it was done with the hope of reviving European Christianity and fear of the growing influence of the Soviet Union. The Vatican, however, has refused to comment on these claims. 3. The Vatican Made Money from the Holocaust In addition to aiding the escape of thousands of Nazis from Europe, the Vatican was also involved in helping smuggle Nazi looted art, golf, and other property belonging to Jewish families.  Gerald Posner, an American journalist, says that Bernardino Nogara, the financial advisor to the Vatican is believed to have been one of Nazi spies. He is believed to have instituted a horrifying scheme that allowed the Vatican to invest money in Italian insurance companies that kept the assets from the life insurance plans of the murdered Jewish families. Since the Vatican was an investor and not a direct insurer, they did not need to return any of the money made using the scheme. 4. Scandals of the Vatican Bank The Vatican Bank, also called the Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR) has been involved in numerous scandals.  The most controversial is their dealing with Hitler. Gerald Posner, a historian, points out that the Vatican received Church Tax from Hitler every year.  A substantial amount of money was paid to the IOR, so that it cannot be tracked by western banks. The IOR was used to store billions of dollars, the details of which have never been publicly revealed. 5. Vatileaks A book named ‘His Holiness' was released in 2012, which is based on the leaked secret papers of Pope Benedict. The private documents were leaked by Benedict XVI's own butler to the author, Gianluigi Nuzzi. After reviewing these documents, an internal investigation was held. The investigation revealed that individuals who were not from the Vaitcan were blackmailing gay bishops since they had broken their celibacy vows. Pope Benedict CVI went on to resign from the Papacy in 2013 due to this scandal.  6. The Apostolic Penitentiary The Apostolic Penitentiary is a secret tribunal that investigates so-called ‘heinous' crimes of individuals. It was supposedly found in 1179, and was kept secret until 2009. Only the pope can grant absolution to people brought to this tribunal. Examples of sins include attempting to assassinate the pope, a priest exposing the sin or identity of a person who has confessed to them, and so on. The pope acts as the head of this tribunal, and is called the Major Penitentiary, and can either offer absolution, or let the automatic excommunication stand.  7. Dead Man on Trial In 897 AD, the Catholic Church put a dead man on trial. Known as the 'Cadaver Synod,' the posthumous trial of Pope Formosus was held by Pope Stephen VI, his successor. Formosus was accused of usurping the papacy,  despite being dead for 7 months by that point. The body of the pope was exhumed, dressed in ecclesiastical attire, and brought to the papal court for judgment. A deacon was even appointed to speak on the dead Pope's behalf. He was found guilty; all his acts as pope was declared null and void; his body was stripped off the garments and dressed in rags; his three fingers of benediction were cut off and his body was cast into River Tiber, where ancient Romans disposed off their infamous criminals for centuries.   Conspiracy Theories About the Vatican's Secret Archives 1. Jesus Does Not Exist There are reports that the Archives contain communication between Emperor Nero and Saint Paul regarding the existence of Jesus. Some clergy believe that the Vatican is hiding proof that Jesus Christ did not exist.  2. Evidence of Extraterrestrial Life Rumors suggest that the Vatican holds proof of the existence of extraterrestrial life, in the form of extraterrestrial skulls. Some sources say that the Archives contain proof that the pope is conspiring extraterrestrial beings to implant everyone on Earth with computer chips.  3. Three Secrets of Fatima The controversial Third Secret of Fatima is believed to be a secret document hidden within the Archives. In 1917, three children from Portugal received prophecies, one of which was witnessed by thousands of people. The supposed suppression of this Third Secret fueled rumors that its contents were regarding a nuclear holocaust, natural disaster, and so on. The release of the contents of this Secret in 2000 did not do much to quell speculation.  4. Home to the Largest Collection of Pornography Some conspiracy theorists believe that the Vatican Archives contain the largest collection of pornography in the world. Copenhagen's Museum of Erotica confirms these speculations, in addition to writings by National Review founder William Buckley Jr, and scholar Camilla Paglia.  5. They are Controlled by the Illuminati Some people believe that despite their dissolution in the medieval times, the Illuminati has solely built itself up, with its members placed in some of the most powerful positions across the world. One such powerful office is the Vatican, where many of its prominent members are believed to be part of the Illuminati.  6. It is Home to a Time Machine Believed to have been built by an Italian scientist and priest, Father Pellegrino Maria Ernetti, the Chronovisor is a device that apparently allows people to view the future and past. Although there is no record of such a device, some people believe it is hidden somewhere in the Archives.

We're back! Ever hated someone so much that you dug up their corpse and accused them of betrayal in front of a crowd of people? Then you need to step up your hater game. Join Scott and Zo on their journey to learn about the ninth century feud between Pope Formosus and Pope Stephen VI that only started after Formosus was dead, buried and definitely a rotting corpse. Follow Zo on Twitter ⁠⁠@biasedsoymotel ⁠⁠ Fund the show at our ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠! Haphazard History is hosted by Scott Martin. Follow him on Twitter (⁠⁠@YouCaughtScott⁠⁠), YouTube (⁠⁠Pinko Punko⁠⁠) and his substack covering Canadian news media (⁠The Catch⁠). Music and production by Scott Martin, artwork by ⁠⁠@GutterMagic⁠⁠ Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charlemagne/Military-campaign https://wou.edu/history/files/2015/08/Monica-Fleener.pdf  https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/fac_pm/42/?iframe=true&width=100%&height=100%  https://daily.jstor.org/the-cadaver-synod-putting-a-dead-pope-on-trial/ https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/141654862.pdf  https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/history-magazine/article/vatican-dead-pope-on-trial  https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/morbid-monday-cadaver-synod  https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/d8-5wrw-j379/download https://courses.lumenlearning.com/atd-herkimer-westerncivilization/chapter/the-coronation-of-800-ce/

We're back!!! (Note: this episode was recorded BEFORE our hiatus) Formosus is one of the most famous popes in history, though not for anything he actually did in life. But this episode will be about his life anyways! In his episode, we'll have a look at his dramatic pre-pope career, the state of the Eastern Church and Holy Roman Empire, and the summer of George.  Please join us in giving a warm welcome to our new editor, Gregg Gassman, of Popeular History and Cardinal Numbers!    

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Our man this episode is altogether unique – and not just because he's the only Successor of Peter with this particular name. No, he's actually most famous for something he had no control over at all – because he was dead. PATREON: https://patreon.com/thepopecast FB / Twitter / Instagram: @thepopecast EMAIL: popecastmc@gmail.com NEWSLETTER: https://popes.substack.com

ImagesWiki Links:Cadaver synodPope FormosusThe Referenced article:The Cadaver Synod: Strangest Trial in History Loose transcript:Hi everyone!  Welcome back to episode 2 of Nightmare now! The show where we make up the taglines as we go! We discuss all the horrible happenings of humanity and all the extreme eerieness of everything else.  I'm your host erik byrne but before we really get into the rotting guts of this episode I want to get a few clerical things out of the way real quick here:First thanks for tuning in whether it's your first or second episode welcome.Episode 2 is a huge milestone, because according to some bulls*** statistic I read somewhere, 12% percent of all podcasts don't even make it this far. So thanks for everyone's support! All ten listeners of the first episode, you tha real ones. I want to be transparent up front here with my plans for the immediate future and long distance future for the show. Doing a big fully researched episode like the tiger one last week is a lot of work, but at the same time it's my first go around here. I'll get better, I promise. What that means, at least for now is, I can't read multiple sources, write an outline and jokes, record, edit, promote, upload and do all that alone every single week. That doesn't mean I don't want to bring you all the spook every week but I'm thinking maybe a shorter episode every two weeks or something to keep it coming. I want to keep the quality high so these ones won't necessarily need books and books of research to cover the full story in a satisfactory way. This episode is gonna be a little bit like that. We'll see just how long it ends up being but honestly I couldn't even find a book on this topic anyway, but it's wild and right up our alley so without further ado I present to you all, the synod horrenda, known in english as the cadaver synod.It was  january of  897 in Rome, and the vatican was winding up for what would prove to be maybe the second most embarrassing moment for the papacy, after you know, the rampant sex abuse but that's for another show. The current pope stephen the sixth, or possibly the seventh?? Most of the sources I looked at didn't seem to agree on this detail, like at all, look it up every other article or thing about it switches between them but for our purposes we'll call him the sixth. Everyone in this story is dead so the only people I'll offend with that are medieval scholars anyway, so sorry to you guys.  So stephen the 6th was putting together a synod. We're just gonna gloss over the fact that the whole time i was doing research for this I thought it was SAI NOD but apparently it's sinnod. For those of you that don't know what that is like I didn't it's basically a religious assembly, particularly in this context like a court trial. Stephen was effectively the prosecutor, the judge and the jury of this trial himself, which is a little corrupt but not too crazy in the annals of history. What sets it apart is the defendant. The previous pope, pope formosus. Are you seeing the problem here? As far as i know The new pope is not announced or elected or whatever, until the previous one has died. Pope formosus had died on april 4th 869. His corpse had been rotting in st peter's basilica for seven months. That really didn't matter to stephen, who was presumably a little bit insane, so he ordered that the corpse of formosus be exhumed from its tomb dressed in his sunday best vestments and brought into the papal court to stand, well you know, sit trial. The rotting worm infested corpse was propped up onto a throne to just take all the verbal abuse thrown at it. There's a painting of this that's f***g incredible. Maybe I'll make it the episode art or something, I'll at least link it in the show notes. But it looks like ace attorney meets dawn of the dead meets a literal god damned iron maiden album art. It f***ing rules I want it on a T shirt. And this actually happened! Formosus is sitting there with no eyes and stretched, decayed, greying skin all propped up with the hat and everything while stephen is just giving him the phoenix wright OBJECTION point. So naturally formosus isn't really very good at defending himself from the charges levied against him, being dead and mute. But he wasn't completely helpless, they threw the skelepope a bone by having a young unnamed deacon sit behind the throne and answer as him in his defense, but this kid was obviously told to not do too well, the case was supposed to be a slam dunk after all. This is one of my favorite parts of the story even though it's not super well documented. Unfortunately most of the documents regarding the cadaver synod were destroyed later on when people realized how fucking batshit insane it was and they were like maybe we leave this bit out of the lore for a while. But back to the young deacon, imagine you're sitting behind this LITERALLY ROTTING IN FRONT OF A GIANT AUDIENCE CORPSE, and it's getting  grilled about stuff like where were you on the night of march 27th and you just have to do your best jeff dunham and be like “I was dead your honor” Well how about the july the 13th?Still dead. Amazing. But the real charges against formosus fall into a political sort of category, at least most historians seem to think so. So before we close out the trial of formosus, I know you're on the edge of your seat wondering whether or not stephen is going to find him guilty. I'll give you two guesses. But I think it's important to give a little context to this whole affair. First off, basically everyone but stephen rightly thought this was totally gross and insane. This kind of thing was not common at the time, it was completely wild back then too. And not just the immediate surroundings of this macabre trial were crazy. This was a tumultuous time for the the papacy in general, so much so that it got a reputation as the quote “iron age of the papacy.”Most of this hinged on the fact that more or less the pope was the only one that could crown a new holy roman emperor, and because of this and the power that it brought, the papacy didn't always attract the most uh, scrupulous people to be involved with it. So basically all these families and factions vying to become emperor would try to make one of their supporters a pope, or have other high ranking members of the church killed or exiled to further their own ambitions. There's a fabulous article about this by this guy, donald wilkes junior that really helped putting this episode together that goes into a lot of detail about this so called iron age. It's all very game of thrones. I'll link to that in the notes. So in the 8 years from eight ninety six to nine oh four there was nine popes compared to there being nine popes from 1900 to 2 thousand. With all this intrigue and murder the papal turnover was pretty damn high. Some were poisoned, some clubbed to death, others thrown in jail to rot, and others died in giant air quotes mysterious circumstances. Read that as probably also murdered. So it's in the middle of this crazy violent century of the catholic church in rome that this ridiculous trial takes place. Historians suggest that the specific motivations for the synod most likely were due to a sort of rivalry between formosus and steven, where both people were sort of members of opposing factions vying for the emperorship. Is that the right word? Empire? Whatever. So stephen was in with the previous emperor guy the third of spoleto and formosus encouraged this other dude arnulf of corinthia to invade and usurp this other guy… guy. The third. So he does and formosus makes arnulf emperor. This made a number of people very upset for reasons that are honestly beyond the scope of my research today. Maybe we'll go back and do a deep dive on the iron age here some other time.So when formosus dies in april, holy crap I forgot about this part, steven wasn't actually the next pope. It was this guy boniface, bony face? Bonifachy?   the sixth. He got in right after formosus died but he died 13 days later from the gout. So that happened. In and out, like I said, high turnover rates on the popes.After that stephen takes over and he's part of the opposing faction to formosus. And all that craziness sets the stage for the cadaver synod.So we go back to the synod, we've got a rotting corpse on a throne, we've got stephen hurling insults and doing a whole inquisition on this body and we've got some teeenager hiding behind said throne and answering yes or no or denying any of these quote unquote charges as best as he can, which would make a f***g awesome alternate universe saturday night live sketch where they did all history. One thing we didn't touch on yet though was the fact that this wasn't a 2021 covid zoom trial. There was plenty of other people kicking around. There was a whole audience slash jury of people watching this shitshow take place and I can't help but thinking about them like this: Imagine your boss shows up and wants to do some kind of stupid leadership, synergy, team building insert your own buzzword here exercise and you're just like f***k it, its better than working right?I imagine the whole thing was catered and stuff and what are you gonna do? Tell the pope he's being a ridiculous a-hole? I feel like that's a shortcut to being hanged for heresy. This is the perfect example of how I'm doing the “Night bite”  episodes differently. I don't need to look that up. You're not here for a citation for your medieval history PHD. Do they get hanged? Hung? Some other form of execution? Who knows? Who cares? This is nightmare now after dark, cite the main episodes, we're playing it fast and loose here. Just like pope stephen was. So while he's grilling the body of formosus, not literally it didn't get that crazy, they were catholics not cannibals. That's for another episode. While he's aggressively interrogating the body and the deacon is doing his best to defend this corpse from behind the throne, stephen shouts out the charges, violating the church canon by becoming pope in the first place, coveting the papacy and perjury. It's unclear whether the perjury was in the trial after he was dead or in some other capacity but it's even funnier to imagine it in that trial. Just stephen shouting down the deacon while he's trying to do the shaggy, wasn't me” bit from behind this body. And getting called out for lying under oath. Unfortunately any transcripts of the cadaver synod were destroyed so we don't really know how long the trial lasted or what exactly was said but what we do know is mostly from testimony of people that were there and what they wrote elsewhere and from this long form twenty thousand line poem called the ring and the book. As for the length  You have to imagine it was at least a long afternoon ordeal. However long it took, the verdict was reached with very little deliberation. Guilty. Of all charges. Shocking right? And he put up such a good defense! One interesting part of the defense actually, might have been God himself appearing as a witness. Reportedly there was a minor earthquake in the middle of the trial as if to be like yo, cut this shit out or take it out of my house. I couldn't find more than one source to corroborate that though so it might be bullshit. Who knows? Either way it didn't help formosusus case at all; he was still found guilty.On to the sentencing: if you thought the trial was grisly, get a load of this: becaues formosus was found guilty, and they couldn't exactly give him the death penalty, they instead decided to strip him of all aspects of his papacy starting with his clothes and then the three fingers on his right hand, the ones that a pope uses to bestow blessings onto people. Next they invalidated every proclamation and act that he ever did as pope. Another funny bit of this was that one of formusus actions as pope was actually what made Stephen a bishop initially. By invalidating that does he invalidate his own papacy? Apparently not, and he just kinda glosses over that detail, much like I'm going to. At least I pointed it out right? And finally they dressed him up as a commoner and buried him in a grave for foreigners and heathens. But his troubles didn't end there. Maybe they already had, you know, he was dead after all, so that brings up all sorts of afterlife questions that are beyond the scope of what I'm trying to accomplish here. But the corpse's troubles didn't end there. Almost immediately after he's buried in this heathen cemetery, Stephen is like, screw that, he aint getting off that easy. So formusus is exhumed again, take a shot every time this guy gets dug up or buried and you'll have a good buzz going by the end of the episode. So they exhume him from the foreigner cemetery and toss his body into the tiber river.The tiber river was basically where they threw anyone and anything they wanted to get rid of permanently Shortly after that a monk pulled the body out of the river and presumably preserved it somehow. After this the corpse reportedly performed miracles. What's interesting about that is not a single one of the sources I had could describe what those miracles were, they all just said exactly that “Reportedly performed miracles” unquote. We're left to speculate, so how I interpret that is he gets pulled out of the river and just does the WB frog Hello muh baby hello my honey hello my ragtime gal, jig dance and then collapses into a waterlogged pile of bones barely hanging together. Flash back over to stephen, while formosus is off performing miracles on the banks of the tiber, stephen is facing down an angry mob at the vatican. Turns out a massive macabre show trial of a popular pope's dead body wasn't well received by the masses. A few months after the trial there was a revolt and Stephen was removed from his post, forced to wear the clothes of a peasant and then thrown in prison. As if that wasn't bad enough, after spending a few months in prison, he was strangled to death by a cellmate. Again high turnover, iron age yada yada yada. Being pope aint easy like it is today. Here we are then. Formosus is long dead, Stephen is short dead. You'd think that's where the story ends right? Wrong. One of the popes after Stephen the sixth was this dude Theodore the second and he was a formosus fan. He said the whole affair was, I'm paraphrasing here, an irredeemable f**show. OL theo 2 called his own synod that nullified the whole thing and reinstated formosus. The problem with that is that they had to get his body back from the monks and dress him up, bring it back to rebury it at saint peter's basilica… Again. Drink if you're following along. The next pope John the ninth also agreed that the trial was a sham and doubly nullified it. Additionally they made it illegal to hold  trial against a corpse. A rule you would think would be unnecessary, but hey they're their for a reason, just like making tying an alligator to a street sign is illegal in indiana someone has to f***k it up before they make it a rule. again you might think that the story ends there, and again you'd be wrong. After those two popes came this dude sergius the third. This guy was a real bastard. And he was not a formosus fan. He was actually at the proceedings of the cadaver synod and was one of the few people that was just like “hell yeah screw formosus, this rules.” So when he became pope he decreed that the synod was in fact legit and even went so far as to add an extra plaque on stephen's tomb that said he was a rad dude and ahead of his time with the cadaver synod, and that formosus was a piece of s**t. History did not remember Sergius the third favorably. He was the only pope to order the murder of another pope and also he fathered an illegitimate son as pope. I'd like to reiterate here that I'm by no means an expert on catholic law or theology, but I'm pretty sure the pope isn't supposed to be knocking chicks up. After sergius the third, people generally agree that the whole cadaver synod was an insane, illegal, ridiculous blemish on history and formosus basically did nothing wrong. And that, folks, is where this story ends. Formosus stands vindicated after being used as a macabre prop in one of the most ridiculous events of the time period. Stephen and Sergius lie in disgrace and the catholic church has other matters to attend to. I'm erik byrne, signing off for this week's nightmare now episode, I'll see you next week! In the meantime check out my website, That at the time of recording isn't set up haha, but at least i've got instagram at nightmare dot now. Twitter is coming soon and Hopefully I'll have a way to link all of that by the time I get this uploaded. Thanks everyone for listening and if you've got it in your heart throw ya boi a like, subscribe and a review on apple podcasts or whatever. In the first few weeks of a show releasing is where all that makes a huge difference so every single one counts big time. Thanks again for listening, it means so much to me that you think my show is worth your time. Any questions or comments shoot me a line at nightmarenowpodcast@gmail.com.  Catch you next week! 

Although there is some confusion over Pope Marinus and his name, one thing that is perfectly clear is that his papacy set an important precedent in papal elections! In his episode, we discuss his approach to the ongoing Formosus situation, his relationship with a rexy king, and another spiritual blow in the Muslim conflict.   Please forgive our warbles, our mics were pure chaos this time around. 

Say three Hail Marys and get ready for some stories straight from the dude upstairs. Anthony talks about the death and subsequent troubles of Pope Formosus. Adam spills the beans on Pope John XII....and they're some spicy beans. If we're going to hell then we'll see at least one of these guys there. Hosts: Adam Azra'el, Anthony Staten Producer: Adam Azra'el

Pope Mad Hook assumes the papacy, and is faced with all the danger! In his episode, we discuss a full on pirate defense of Rome, difficult Guidos, a major shift in how the Holy Roman Emperors were chosen, and the first conflicts of Formosus - with shocking consequences!

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Nach einem kurzen Pontifikat stirbt Formosus. Neun Monate nach seinem Tod holt Nachfolger Papst Stefan ihn aus der Gruft und macht der Leiche wegen angeblicher Missbräuche den Prozess.

* According to the Global Language Monitor, every 98 minutes a new word is created somewhere in the world. * You could be forgiven if you've never heard of Pope Formosus, but the details of his career are fascinating. In 872, while serving as Cardinal Bishop of Portus, he was a candidate for the papacy, but due to some political issues, he left Rome later that year. Pope John VIII ordered Formosus' excommunication for, among other things, deserting his diocese without papal permission, despoiling the cloisters in Rome and conspiring with “certain iniquitous men and women for the destruction of...Article Link

An in-depth discussion of one of the most corrupt periods in the history of the Papacy, featuring the trial of the corpse of Formosus in 897.Music Credits: Magical Gravitation www.royaltyfree-music.com The Mourning SongKevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Tales From the GraveChristoffer Moe Ditlevsen   EpidemicSound.comSupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/GunnarHauser )

"Jeg dømmer dig til døden! Nå, nej." I dag skal vi dykke ned i en lidt makaber og ukristelig historie. For sjovt nok har pavedømmet ikke altid været så helligt, som man skulle tro. I slutningen af 800-tallet mindede vatikanet mest af alt om Game of Thrones, hvor det hellige embede skiftede ejermand som vi andre skifter underbukser. En af dem, som undertiden nåede at slå røven i det hellige sæde var Pave Formosus, der kom til magten af omveje, hvilket gjorde ham ekstremt upopulær. Så da hans tid som pave var ovre blev han derfor stillet for retten af sin efterfølger. Problemet var bare, at Formosus havde været død i syv måneder... --------- Find Vanvidsbarometeret på: www.barometerbjarke.dk Find vores øl på: www.vanvittigverdenshistorie.dk/skaal Køb billetter til live-shows på: vanvittigverdenshistorie.dk Støt os på 10er: vanvittigverdenshistorie.10er.dk Meld dig til Zetland: zetland.dk/augsburgrocks

Rom im 9. Jahrhundert nach Christus. Hollywoodproduzenten wären ratlos: Was machen wir aus diesem Stoff? Horrorschocker oder Thriller? Höhepunkt im brutalen Machtkampf zwischen den Päpsten: Der Leichenprozess um Papst Formosus. Autor: Wolfgang Meyer

A sceptic is someone who has not decided, or is not in a position to decide, what is true, right or good. Why then are sceptics now called deniers? As the impeachment trial of the former president begins, is there any precedent for impeaching people no longer in office? Yes there is and it's a gruesome tale. How much have captives' or slaves influenced those who took them? It turns out, quite a lot! We're told to just follow the science, but sometimes there are competing theories so who do you believe and why is that choice sometimes not easy?

A sceptic is someone who has not decided, or is not in a position to decide, what is true, right or good. Why then are sceptics now called deniers? As the impeachment trial of the former president begins, is there any precedent for impeaching people no longer in office? Yes there is and it's a gruesome tale. How much have captives' or slaves influenced those who took them? It turns out, quite a lot! We're told to just follow the science, but sometimes there are competing theories so who do you believe and why is that choice sometimes not easy?

A sceptic is someone who has not decided, or is not in a position to decide, what is true, right or good. Why then are sceptics now called deniers? As the impeachment trial of the former president begins, is there any precedent for impeaching people no longer in office? Yes there is and it's a gruesome tale. How much have captives' or slaves influenced those who took them? It turns out, quite a lot! We're told to just follow the science, but sometimes there are competing theories so who do you believe and why is that choice sometimes not easy?

In this 2011 episode, prior hosts Sarah and Deblina cover Pope Stephen VI having his deceased predecessor Formosus exhumed and put on trial in 897. The corpse was found guilty, but this desecration disgusted Romans and made them rebel. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

A controversial pope to say the least.

A controversial pope to say the least.

In this episode of Secret Dinosaur Cult, we discuss poo smells, noisy porn, drag names, gender in comedy and as always, try and fill our daddy holes.Hosted by Sofie Hagen and Jodie Mitchell.Produced by Justine McNichol for Dying Alone Ltd.Jingle by Harriet Braine.Photo by Gavin Smart.Logo by Annaliese Nappa.Recorded at The Phoenix, LondonFollow Secret Dinosaur Cult:Twitter: https://twitter.com/secretdinocultInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/secretdinosaurcult/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SecretDinosaurCult/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

- 2.10 Ripples and bubbles: the Roman factions and a dissolving empire - 5.03 The four margraves - 6.22 The complexity of the papacy - 8.48 Formosus: controversial and pious - 10.59 Infallibility, the play - 11.58 Power, authority and faith: the Cadaver Synod - 13.08 Reflecting (on) the present: Bush, Obama, Trump Today’s speakers are Matt Barbot and Roger Collins.

Bless you my child, it's Popes week! And we've avoided almost all the obvious jokes! Tom's been learning about the Malleus Maleficarum or 'Hammer of Witches', a hideous medieval treatise on how to spot witches, how to deal with them, and, erm... quite a lot of detail about their supposed sex lives. Lovely.  Meanwhile, Sam heads down into the crypt of the Cadaver Synod - the gory and highly political trial of the already dead pope Formosus in the 9th Century. And yes, the dead pope was there in the room.   Subscribe and listen to us! Apple Music // Podbean // Overcast // Stitcher // TuneIn // Spotify Welcome to That Was Genius: Two blokes. A 12-hour time difference. An immature sense of humour. And 10,000 years of human civilisation. A weekly podcast looking at the weirder side of history. Join Sam Datta-Paulin (he likes history and lives in Britain) and Tom Berry (he also likes history but lives in New Zealand), for a weekly reflection on the bold, the brilliant... And the downright strange. From bizarre events and stories to equally odd inventions, barely a day goes by without something incredible (or incredibly stupid) happening around the world. We upload new episodes every Wednesday night/Thursday morning (UK time). Check us out on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and via our website, and please do subscribe to us and leave us a review if you like what you hear! That Was Genius is produced by Glorious Republic Broadcasting.

Dr.Jessica Troy joins me on podcast episode #43. Jessica is a 'Medievalist' and she takes us on a deep look into not only Medieval literature but a day in the life of a medieval human. What would the world look like trying to go to work in say 800, 1100, or 1500 A.D.? What types of jobs could a lowly peasant like me expect to have? What kinds of careers, lifestyle and entertainment could I find back then? Jessica is incredibly smart being both a teacher and a Doctor and is talented at painting a picture of medieval life. Don't miss this chance to immerse yourself in the old world and learn more about corpses, churches and humans in Medieval Anglo Saxon England and what made it what it is today! - 2:00 Its not the Bronze Age! - 2:30 Body Carts and the plague - 5:00 'The 4 Humors' and being 'Hot-Blooded' - 11:45 Re-enacting the medieval plague - 16:00 Battle of Hastings and the Normans - 18:00 Old English - 20:00 French influence - 24:00 Scotts and Irish start a fight - 31:00 The Scarlet Letter  - 35:00 Beowulf - 40:00 King Arthur - 44:00 The Odyssey - 47:00 Misunderstood Grendel - 49:00 Medieval Hollywood  - 54:00 Death and corpses, a thesis - 1:00:00 Dyeing scenes in all their glory - 1:03:00 Typical day in the life of a medieval man and woman - 1:08:00 Shires were real!!! - 1:12:00 When publicly hanging, rope length matters - 1:23:00 That's not good enough, dig up my sisters corpse! - 1:27:00 Saints don't burn... typically - 1:31:00 Religion is lore - faith is up to you - 1:39:00 Women's rights... or lack thereof - 1:43:00 A Hermitage with God - 1:47:00 Widows may have done well - 1:50:00 Barbers were doctors and healthcare wasn't a thing - 1:53:00 Sex and marriage in the medieval times - 1:56:00 Sex as utility, Chaucer and rape - 2:01:00 Prostitution and werewolves - 2:10:00 Formosus the pope, thrice exhumed and so, so much more - 2:21:00 Literacy and books - 2:34:00 War and its effect on the globe - 2:37:00 Fitness, sporting and hunting - 2:40:00 How to read Jessica's works and contact her! - CALLING ALL CORPSES - Contacting Jessica to hire a Anglo-Saxonist Medievalist --> Email jtroy01@unm.edu - jtroy84@gmail.com - Social media Insta - Instagram - @corpselady84 - Love you some history! www.aperchofbirds.com

This episode has it all: Pope-on-pope legal drama! Corpse desecration! 3 separate French kings named Charles! Come for an explanation of the corpse synod, stay to find out why it's not easy being pope.

Stewart is joined this episode by Cody "EasyBake" Melcher and Peter-john Byrnes. Join the guys as they discuss Pope Formosus who was dug up and put on trial by Pope Stephen VI. It's an interesting look at a bizarre time! 

In 897 Pope Stephen VI put the corpse of one of his predecessors, Formosus, on trial. The current pope ordered that the former pope's dead body be dressed in papal finery and put on a throne to stand trial. Stephen […]

Today on the First 40 Miles, our family did something that exercised our risk muscle and prepared us for some interesting side trails on autumn and spring backpacking trips.  We went mushroom hunting without someone holding our hand!  Then we'll review a sturdy piece of outdoor gear that will give you a place to organize mushrooms, do a little outdoor sketching and maybe some meal prep.

The Cadaver Synod (also called the Cadaver Trial; Latin: Synodus Horrenda) is the name commonly given to the posthumous ecclesiastical trial of Pope Formosus, held in the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome during January 897.[1] The trial was conducted by Pope Stephen VI (sometimes called Stephen VII), who was the successor to Formosus' successor, Pope Boniface VI. Stephen accused Formosus of perjury and of having acceded to the papacy illegally. At the end of the trial, Formosus was pronounced guilty and his papacy retroactively declared null. Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you’d like to support the show on a per episode basis, you can find our Patreon page here.  Be sure to check our website for more details.

The Cadaver Synod (also called the Cadaver Trial; Latin: Synodus Horrenda) is the name commonly given to the posthumous ecclesiastical trial of Pope Formosus, held in the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome during January 897.[1] The trial was conducted by Pope Stephen VI (sometimes called Stephen VII), who was the successor to Formosus' successor, Pope Boniface VI. Stephen accused Formosus of perjury and of having acceded to the papacy illegally. At the end of the trial, Formosus was pronounced guilty and his papacy retroactively declared null. Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you’d like to support the show on a per episode basis, you can find our Patreon page here.  Be sure to check our website for more details.

Papst Formosus hatte es im Leben nicht immer leicht. Und noch viel weniger im Tode. (War: Das geheime Adventskabinett)

In 897, Pope Stephen VI had his deceased predecessor Formosus exhumed and put on trial. The corpse was found guilty, but this desecration disgusted Romans and made them rebel. Tune in to learn more about the period known as the Papal Pornocracy. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers