Adrian IV

American  

Or Hadrian IV

noun

1. Nicholas Breakspear, c1100–59, only Englishman to become pope, 1154–59.

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Adrian IV British  

noun

1. original name Nicholas Breakspear. ?1100–59, the only English pope (1154–59)

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Adrian IV

For the first time since Pope Adrian IV, 795 years ago, gave the island to England's King Henry II, Ireland was independent in law as well as fact.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ironically, that ambition was sanctioned in 1155, when Pope Adrian IV gave sovereignty over Ireland to England's King Henry II.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pope Adrian IV, by a bull, grants Ireland to the English crown.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05 (From Charlemagne to Frederick Barbarossa) by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

The poet has just learned that the spirit before him is Pope Adrian IV.

From Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 by Slattery, John T. (John Theodore)

Pope Adrian IV was first enabled, under more favorable circumstances, and assisted by the Emperor Frederick I, to deprive the Arnold party of its leader, and then to suppress it entirely.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05 (From Charlemagne to Frederick Barbarossa) by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)