From The Lives of the Popes from the Time of our Saviour Jesus Christ to the Accession of Gregory VII. Written Originally in Latin by B. Platina, Native of Cremona, and translated into English (from an anonymous translation, first printed in 1685 by Sir Paul Rycaut), Edited by William Benham, Volume I, London: Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh, [1888, undated in text]; pp. 254.
The Lives of the Popes,
BY
B. Platina
Volume I.
BENEDICT V.
A.D. 963.
BENEDICT the Fifth, a Roman, in the sedition was of a deacon made Pope, chiefly by the assistance of the kindred and dependents of John, to whom the preferment of Leo by Otho gave great disgust. But the Emperor disapproving this election, flatly denied the confirmation of it to the Romans who earnestly sought it, and wasting the territories of the city with fire and sword, forced them not only to turn out, but to yield up Benedict, and submit to Leo, with an oath not to attempt any alteration in what the Emperor had established in the affair of the Popedom. Matters thus composed in Italy, Otho goes back to Germany, taking Benedict with him, who soon after died at Hapsburg, whither he was banished. He held the Papacy six months and five days; the see was after vacant thirty days.
Previous Pope: 134. John XII. 135. Benedict V. Next Pope: 136. Leo VIII.