Person1000–1061
Humbert of Silva Candida
Benedictine monk of Moyenmoutier in Lorraine whom Leo IX brought to Rome, made cardinal-bishop of Silva Candida and employed as his chief secretary. As head of the papal legation to Constantinople he laid the bull excommunicating Patriarch Michael Cerularius on the altar of Hagia Sophia on 16 July 1054.
- Dates
- between 1000 and 1015 – 5 May 1061
- Events
- 1 event
- Regions
- Balkans and Anatolia
- In the threads
- Balkans and Anatolia (11th–12th c.)
Events
- East–West Schism: the excommunications of 105416 July 1054 · Balkans and Anatolia