/year

Pope Adrian IV

Pope from 1154 to 1159

9 dated entries naming Pope Adrian IV, drawn from 6 separate years between 1100 CE and 1159 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Adrian IV in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

JSONWikipedia articleWikidata Q132845

11th century

  • 1100Adrian IV, pope of the Catholic Church (died 1159)source

12th century

  • 1150The 15-year-old King Inge I ("the Hunchback") of Norway calls for a meeting at Bergen of all religious leaders in anticipation that the English cardinal Nicholas Breakspear will find an archbishopric at Trondheim.source
  • 1154December 3 – Pope Anastasius IV dies after a 17-month pontificate. He is succeeded by Adrian IV (the only English pope in history) as the 169th pope of the Catholic Church.source
  • 1155Pope Adrian IV issues the papal bull Laudabiliter, granting Henry II of England the right to rule Ireland, after Henry convinced the Pope that he was needed "to proclaim the truths of the Christian religion" to the Irish people.source
  • 1155June 18 – King Frederick Barbarossa is crowned as Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Adrian IV at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.source
  • 1156Treaty of Benevento - The Treaty of Benevento was an important treaty between the papacy of Adrian IV and the Norman Kingdom of Sicily. After years of turbulent relations, the popes finally settled down to a peace with the Hauteville kings.source
  • 1156June 18 – Pope Adrian IV comes to terms, and signs the Treaty of Benevento. He recognises the suzerainty of William I as ruler of Sicily and Italy.source
  • 1159September 1 – Pope Adrian IV (born c. 1100)source
  • 1159September 7 – Pope Alexander III succeeds Pope Adrian IV, as the 170th pope.source

Named in the same entries