Honorius II

(Peter Claudius), Antipope, was elected in 1061, through the influence of Henry IV, in opposition to Alexander II, who had been chosen by the cardinals without his assent. The election took place in a council convened at Basle, and Honorius afterwards went to Rome. The German bishops, however, under the influence of Hanno, archbishop of Cologne, sided with Alexander II at the Synod of Augsburg, 1062; and, finally, the Synod of Mantua, 1064, pronounced the deposition of Honorius, and he was obliged thereafter to confine himself to the bishopric of Padua, which he held before his election. Yet he upheld his pretensions to the pontifical see until his death in 1072. He was accused of simony and of concubinage. He is generally not counted among the popes on account of his deposition. — Herzog, Real-Encyklop. vol. 5; Schröckh, Kirchengesch. 22, 382, 385 sq.; Riddle, Hist. of the Papacy, 2, 119; Wetzer u. Welte, Kirchen-Lex. 5, 318 sq.; Aschbach, Kirchen-Lex. 3, 323. SEE ALEXANDER II.