Adrian VI

or Hadrian VI

noun

1. 1459–1523, Dutch ecclesiastic: pope 1522–23.

Example Sentences

John Paul himself was the first non-Italian to become Pope since the 16th century Dutchman Adrian VI.

From Time

On the right is the fine tomb of Pope Adrian VI.,

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Soon after Pope Leo died, and the work, with many others, was suspended during the reign of Adrian VI.

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The bigoted Adrian VI. wished to have the statue burnt and then thrown into the Tiber, but it was saved by the suggestion of Ludovico Suessano, that his ashes would turn into frogs, who would croak louder than he had done.

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The states of Orleans under Charles IX., those of Blois under Henry III. expressed the same regret: the clergy themselves have often demanded the restoration of the ‘pragmatic;’ they said in their remonstrance of 1585, that the king Francis I., when near death, had declared to his son, that there was nothing which weighed so heavily on his conscience as the concordat.301 After Leo X. Adrian VI. born of very obscure parents, occupied for but twenty months the chair of St. Peter.

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