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Adrian IV
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also Hadrian, originally Nicholas Breakspear
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| (c.1100–59)
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| The first and only Englishman to become pope (1154–9), born in Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, SE England, UK. He studied at Merton Priory and Avignon, became a monk in the monastery of St Rufus, near Avignon, and in 1137 was elected its abbot. Complaints about his strictness led to a summons to Rome, where the pope recognized his qualities and appointed him Cardinal-Bishop of Albano in 1146. In 1152 he was sent as papal legate to Scandinavia to reorganize the Church, where he earned fame as the ‘Apostle of the North’. One of his early acts as pope is said to have been the issue of a controversial bull granting Ireland to Henry II. In 1155 he crowned Frederick I Barbarossa as Holy Roman Emperor in front of his massed army in a show of strength in support of the papacy, but he later engaged in a bitter struggle with him for supremacy in Europe. |
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