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GREGORY VI. , pope from 1044 to 1046 , who as Johannes Gratianus had earned a high reputation for learning and probity, succeeded Benedict IX. , having bought off the antipopes Sylvester III. and John XX. In a council held by the emperor Henry III. at Sutri , in 1046 , he was accused of simony , and his election was found to have been informal. This led to his degradation, and was followed by his withdrawal into Germany , where he died in the following year ( 1047 ). He was succeeded by Clement II.