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SERGIUS III

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 667 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SCY-SHA
SERGIUS III ., elected
pope
  by one of the factions in Rome in 898, simultaneously with John IX., was expelled from the
city
  by his adversaries. Circumstances becoming more favour-able, he reappeared in 904, seized the two claimants, Leo V. and Christopher, who were disputing the succession of Benedict IV., and had them strangled. His adherents rallied
round
  the vestiarius Theophylact, a powerful
Roman
  functionary, and his wife Theodora. Sergius is reputed to have been the lover of
Theodora's daughter Marozia, by whom he is said to have had a son, who became
pope
  as John XI. This is the beginning of the so-called " pornocracy." Unlike John IX. and his successors, Sergius was very hostile to the memory of Pope
Formosus
 , and refused to recognize any of the ordinations celebrated by him, thus causing grave disorders. He also affected to consider as
anti
 -popes, not only John IX., but also his successors down to and including Christopher. He restored the Lateran basilica, which had fallen down in 897. He died on the 14th of
April
  911, and was succeeded by
Anastasius
  III.


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