Pope Lando
Pope from 913 to 914
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ItalyA pope who reigned for half a year during the darkest century of the papacy, when Roman noble families picked pontiffs like chess pieces and Arab raiders burned cathedrals within sight of the Vatican.
About
Lando was born in the Sabina to a wealthy Lombard count named Taino. He became pope sometime in 913 — the exact month is lost to history — almost certainly as the candidate of Count Theophylact I and Senatrix Theodora, the couple who controlled Rome's militia, Senate, and papal purse strings. His pontificate lasted somewhere between four and six months. During that sliver of time, Arab raiders operating from the Garigliano river destroyed the cathedral of San Salvatore in his home diocese. The only recorded act of his reign: a large personal donation to rebuild that same cathedral so the displ…
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Through time
- In the 10th century
- #65
- of 1,907 people
- Most active
- c. 914
- estimated from their dates
- Most talked about
- the 1850s
- their loudest decade in print
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- 0 decades
- with the name in print
- After death
- All of it
- they died before print was measured
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- Papa LandoLow confidencewikipedia · pt.wikipedia.org
- Paus LandoLow confidencewikipedia · nl.wikipedia.org
- Papa LandoLow confidencewikipedia · it.wikipedia.org
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