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ADRIAN II

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 215 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ADRIAN II ., See also:pope from 867 to 872, was a member of a See also:noble See also:Roman See also:family, and became pope in 867, at an advanced See also:age. He maintained, but with less See also:energy, the attitude of his predecessor. Rid of the affair of See also:Lothair; See also:king of See also:Lorraine, by the See also:death of that See also:prince (869), he endeavoured in vain to mediate between the Frankish princes with a view to assuring to the See also:emperor, See also:Louis II., the heritage of the king of Lorraine. See also:Photius, shortly after the See also:council in which he had pronounced See also:sentence of deposition against Pope See also:Nicholas, was driven from the patriarchate by a new emperor, See also:Basil the Macedonian, who favoured his See also:rival See also:Ignatius. An See also:oecumenical council (called by the Latins the 8th) was convoked at See also:Constantinople to decide this See also:matter. At this council Adrian was represented by legates, who presided at the condemnation of Photius, but did not succeed in coming to an understanding with Ignatius on the subject of the See also:jurisdiction over the Bulgarian converts. Like his predecessor Nicholas, Adrian II. was forced to submit, at least in temporal affairs, to the tutelage of the emperor, Louis IL, who placed him under the surveillance of See also:Arsenius, See also:bishop of See also:Orta, his confidential adviser, and Arsenius's son See also:Anastasius; the librarian. Adrian had married in his youth, and his wife and daughter were still living. They were carried off and assassinated by Anastasius's See also:brother, See also:Eleutherius, whose reputation, however, suffered but a momentary See also:eclipse. Adrian died in 872.

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