Famine followed the devastating Lombards, and from the few words the Liber Pontificalis has about Benedict, we gather that he died in the midst of his efforts to cope with these difficulties.
Lombardi su za sobom ostavili glad, a iz nekoliko riječi u Liber pontificalisu o Benediktu, zaključujemo da je umro usred nastojanja da se uhvati u koštac s tim poteškoćama.