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SERGIUS II

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 667 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SERGIUS II ., See also:pope from 844 to 847, a See also:Roman of See also:noble See also:birth, elected by the See also:clergy and See also:people to succeed See also:Gregory IV., was forthwith consecrated without waiting for the See also:sanction of the See also:emperor See also:Lothair, who accordingly sent his son See also:Louis with an See also:army to punish the See also:breach of faith. A pacific arrangement was ultimately made, and Louis was crowned See also:king of See also:Lombardy by Sergius. He was a See also:man of weak See also:health, suffering much from See also:gout, and abandoned the direction of affairs to unworthy persons, whose See also:administration provoked many complaints. In this pontificate See also:Rome was ravaged, and the churches of St See also:Peter and St See also:Paul robbed, by See also:Saracens (See also:August 846). Sergius was succeeded by See also:Leo IV.

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