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The End of the Papacy
Benedict IX couldn't weasel his way back in when he refused to appear on charges of Simon E. in 1049. The history books are pretty murky as to what happened to him from there. He seems to have eventually given up his claims to the papal throne because pope Leo the ninth may have lifted the ban on him and eventually Benedict the ninth was buried in the Abbey of Grotta, Ferrata in 1056.