Pope Lando
Pope from 913 to 914 · Italy · Religious Figures · Lived 900 to 914 · aged 14
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Something wrong?A 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.
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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 displaced clergy could return from exile in Toffia. He died in early 914, leaving behind no chancery documents and a name no pope would take again.
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