Pope Leo V
?–904 CE · Ardea (near Rome)
Leo V, reportedly a priest from near Ardea rather than a member of the Roman clergy, reigned about two months in 903 before being overthrown by the priest Christopher, who imprisoned him and seized the papacy as antipope. Both men were soon disposed of when Sergius III took power; Leo is generally believed to have been murdered in prison around 904. Almost nothing of his governance survives. His fate epitomizes the brutal instability of the early tenth-century Roman church, on the threshold of the period later polemically termed the 'pornocracy' or saeculum obscurum.
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Ardea (near Rome)
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About Ardea (near Rome)
Ardea, an ancient town in Lazio south of Rome, near the Tyrrhenian coast, Italy. It is linked to the origins of one or more early-medieval popes.
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- Pope St. Leo IV· 790 CE–855 CE
- Pope Adrian II· 792 CE–872 CE
- John Scotus Eriugena· 800 CE–877 CE
- Photius I of Constantinople· 815 CE–893 CE
- Pope Formosus· 816 CE–896 CE
- Pope St. Nicholas I· 820 CE–867 CE
- Pope John IX· –900 CE
- Pope Stephen VI· –897 CE
- Pope Theodore II· –897 CE
- Pope Sergius III· –911 CE
- Pope Boniface VI· –896 CE
- Pope Anastasius III· –913 CE
- Pope Lando· –914 CE
- Pope Stephen V· –891 CE
- Pope St. Adrian III· –885 CE
- Pope Marinus I· –884 CE
- Pope John VIII· –882 CE
- Pope John X· –928 CE
- Pope Leo VI· –928 CE
- Pope Stephen VII· –931 CE
- Pope Leo VII· –939 CE
- Pope Stephen VIII· –942 CE
- Pope Marinus II· –946 CE
- Pope Benedict III· –858 CE
Islamic world
Jewish world
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Rulers world
- al-Mu'tamid· 842 CE–892 CE
- al-Mundhir· 842 CE–888 CE
- Alfred the Great· 849 CE–899 CE
- Oleg of Novgorod (Oleg the Prophet)· –912 CE
- Abdullah ibn Muhammad· 844 CE–912 CE
- al-Mu'tadid· 854 CE–902 CE
- Muhammad I· 823 CE–886 CE
- Rurik· –879 CE
- al-Mutawakkil· 822 CE–861 CE
- al-Wathiq· 812 CE–847 CE
- Taejo of Goryeo (Wang Geon)· 877 CE–943 CE
- Igor of Kiev· 877 CE–945 CE
- Olga of Kiev· 890 CE–969 CE
- Jayavarman II· 770 CE–835 CE
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