John X

noun

1. died a.d. 929?, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 914–928.

Example Sentences

John X owed the tiara to his mistress, the elder Theodora, but he was the foremost statesman of his age (Gregorovius, p. 259).

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John X continued with Marozia, who with her own hand first killed her brother and then suffocated the Pope with a cushion.

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When he fell, she married again, and overthrew Pope John X., who had got the better of her first husband.

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Marozia seized and imprisoned Pope John X , who speedily died under her care.

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John X, her mother's lover, she deposed and sent to die in prison.

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