Adrian IV The English Pope (1154โ1159):
โ Brenda Bolton, Anne J. Duggan
๐ Library
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2003
๐ Routledge
๐ English
<span>The year 2000 witnessed the 900th anniversary of the birth of Adrian IV, the only Englishman to sit on the papal throne. His short pontificate of four and a half years, distracted by crisis and controversy and followed as it was by an 18-year schism, could be judged a low point in the history