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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Example Sentences

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

It would seem, then, that Clement III. knew nothing of the bull of Adrian IV.

From Irish Race in the Past and the Present by Thebaud, Augustus J.

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)

The Irish Church remained distinct, though the conquest of Ireland, which was sanctioned by the English pope Adrian IV.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" by Various