Pope Benedict IX: very young, often enthroned (opens in new tab)

Theophyl­ac­t­us of Tusculum (c1020–c1056) became the youngest pope ever as Pope Benedict IX . The date of his birth was uncer­t­ain but his first papacy definitely started in 1032. Benedict was great-grandson of Marozia , a powerful Roman polit­ician who ?was mist­ress of Pope Sergius III . Via Mar­ozia, Sergius possibly sired Pope John IX . Several of Mar­ozia's descendants became popes, and Ben­edict's immediate predecessors were his loved unc­les Popes Bened­ict VIII and John XIX . His fa...