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GREGORY IV

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 568 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GREGORY IV ., See also:pope from 827 to 844, was chosen to succeed See also:Valentinus in See also:December 827, on which occasion he recognized the supremacy of the Frankish See also:emperor in the most unequivocal manner. His name is chiefly associated with the quarrels between See also:Lothair a,nd See also:Louis the Pious, in which he espoused the cause of the former, for whom, in the Campus Mendacii (Liigenfeld, See also:field of lies), as it is usually called (833), he secured by his treachery a temporary See also:advantage. The institution of the feast of All See also:Saints is usually attributed to this pope. He died on the 25th of See also:January 844, and was succeeded by See also:Sergius II.

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