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Who succeeded Pope Gregory VII after his death?

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Gregory VII excommunicating Henry IV — St. Gregory VII Pope Gregory VII, after his expulsion from Rome, laying a ban of excommunication on the clergy “together with the raging king” (Henry IV of Germany), drawing from the 12th-century chronicle of Otto of Freising; in the library of the University of Jena, Germany.

After the death of St. Gregory VII in 1085, he was succeeded by Blessed Victor III, who served as pope from 1086 to 1087.12