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

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.

Sennert says that Pope Adrian IV died from the entrance of a fly into his respiratory passages; and Remy and Gautier record instances of the penetration of small fish into the trachea.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

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