Sergius III

American  

noun

1. died a.d. 911, pope 904–911.

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Example Sentences

This basilica was overthrown by an earthquake in 896, but was rebuilt by Sergius III.

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This Christopher usurped his place, and in a little while was expelled from Rome by Sergius III., who became pope in 905.

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Leo V, who succeeded in A. D. 904, was in less than two months thrown into prison by Christopher, one of his chaplains, who usurped his place, and who, in his turn, was shortly expelled from Rome by Sergius III, who, by the aid of a military force, seized the pontificate, A. D. 905.

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Agapetus, a man of some force of character, did his best to put a stop to the degradation into which the papacy had fallen, the so-called ``Pornocracy,'' which lasted from the accession of Sergius III. in 904 to the deposition of John XII. in 963.

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The following Pope, Stephen VII, died of illness, twenty months after his reign began, and then Marozia gave the Papal crown to the son she had had by Sergius III, who took the name of John XI.

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