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STEPHEN IV

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 882 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STEPHEN IV ., See also:pope from See also:June 816 to See also:January 817, succeeded See also:Leo III. He did not continue Leo's policy, which was more favourable to the See also:clergy than to the See also:lay See also:aristocracy. Immediately after his See also:consecration he ordered the See also:Roman See also:people to swear fidelity to See also:Louis the Pious, to whom he found it prudent to betake himself personally in the following See also:August. After the See also:coronation of Louis at See also:Reims in See also:October he returned to See also:Rome, where he died in the beginning of the following See also:year. His successor was See also:Paschal I.

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