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

He was executed during the pontificate of Adrian IV, in 1155.

From The Inquisition A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church by Conway, Bertrand L. (Bertrand Louis)

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)

England's original title to the over-rule of Ireland—and a perfectly valid one, as times went then—was the momentous bull of Pope Adrian IV, issued to Henry II, in 1155.

From Such Is Life by Furphy, Joseph