 During the pontificate of his brother John XIX, he was made a senator, but he had to abandon this title for the aforemention consular dignity in order to avoid tensions with the Emperor Henry II.Alberic does not appear in sources after 1033, when he left the comital powers to his son the newly elected pope.He married Ermelina and his son Theophylact III (or IV) became Pope Benedict IX in 1032.