• Thumbnail for Marozia
    Marozia, born Maria and also known as Mariuccia or Mariozza (c. 890 – 937), was a Roman noblewoman who was the alleged mistress of Pope Sergius III and...
    8 KB (664 words) - 22:46, 4 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Saeculum obscurum
    daughter Marozia held a great influence over the papal selection and religious affairs in Rome through conspiracies, affairs, and marriages. Marozia became...
    11 KB (1,150 words) - 22:33, 13 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of popes
    the son of Pope Sergius III, and not of Alberic I of Spoleto, who was Marozia's husband. 126 3 January 936 – 13 July 939 (3 years, 191 days) Leo VII LEO...
    205 KB (2,573 words) - 13:05, 4 September 2024
  • mother, Marozia, followed by his brother Alberic II. His pontificate occurred during the period known as Saeculum obscurum. John was the son of Marozia, the...
    8 KB (852 words) - 18:55, 15 August 2024
  • Sergius' supposed affair with Theophylact's daughter, Marozia. This relationship was promoted by Marozia's mother, Theodora, and the result of this affair was...
    21 KB (2,784 words) - 21:15, 15 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rome
    emperor, and each other. These were the times of Theodora and her daughter Marozia, concubines and mothers of several popes, and of Crescentius, a powerful...
    180 KB (18,279 words) - 13:10, 19 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of sexually active popes
    Volumes 1–13 quote: "Was John XI the son of Pope Sergius by the abandoned Marozia? Liutprand says he was, and so does the author of the anonymous catalogue...
    27 KB (1,990 words) - 07:16, 31 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Theodora (senatrix)
    effective rulership of Rome between 905 and her death in 916. Her daughter, Marozia, was the alleged concubine to Pope Sergius III, and mother of Pope John...
    3 KB (339 words) - 05:01, 29 March 2024
  • States from February 929 to his death in 931. A candidate of the infamous Marozia, his pontificate occurred during the period known as the Saeculum obscurum...
    4 KB (358 words) - 16:28, 18 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Joséphine de Beauharnais
    Spoleto (905–915) Anna of Provence (915–924) Bertha of Swabia (922–926) Alda (924–932) Marozia of Tusculum (932–933) Bertha of Swabia (937–948) Adelaide of Italy (948–950)...
    52 KB (6,034 words) - 05:40, 4 September 2024