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Pope Adrian died in Anagni [290] —to where he had retired for security against the Emperor [184] —from quinsy [citation needed] [note 65] on 1 September 1159. He died, says Norwich, "as many Popes had died before him, an embittered exile; and when death came to him, he welcomed it as a friend". [267]
Died: September 1, 1159, Anagni, near Rome [Italy] Title / Office: pope (1154-1159) Adrian IV (born 1100?, Abbot’s Langley, near St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England—died September 1, 1159, Anagni, near Rome [Italy]) was the only Englishman to occupy the papal throne (1154–59).
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Sep 1, 2012 · According to one report, Adrian IV died after choking on a fly in his wine, but quinsy (an inflammation of the tonsils) is the more commonly accepted explanation.
5 days ago · On Sept. 1, 1159, Pope Adrian IV died while staying at the papal residence in Anagni, Italy, near Rome. As a pope, he had a number of accomplishments on his record — including an alliance with the Byzantine Empire and the signing of the Treaty of Benevento, which solidified relations between the papacy of Adrian IV and the Norman kingdom of ...
On 1st September 1159, Pope Adrian IV’s short, tumultuous reign came to an end. He reportedly died choking on a fly in his wine, more likely an incident caused by a tonsil infection. He would go down in history as the only Englishman to serve as Pope, a man who rose from nothing to become the most powerful man in the Catholic Church.
Adrian signed a Papal Bull (official letter) urging King Henry II of England to invade Ireland and bring the Celtic Christian church into the Roman system. A dispute with Frederick I , Holy Roman Emperor was happening when Adrian died.
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Sep 1, 2017 · A cameo of Pope Adrian IV in Notre-Dame de Paris Credit: PHGCOM. Breakspear inherited two major headaches: the city of Rome was hostile, and Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor, was locked...
