Adrien Ier

Adrien Ier , (born with Rome - died the December 25th 795) was pope of 772 with 795. He was elected pope the February 9th 772 to succeed Etienne III, becoming the 95e Pape of the Roman Catholic church. He put an end to the first crisis Iconoclaste.

He saw himself worried by Didier, king of Lombards, and was avenged by Charlemagne, which made him gift of part of the states of Didier, in particular of the Pérugin and duchy of Spolète (774). It is under its pontificate that the 2nd Concile was held of Nicée, 787.

Biography

Wire of certain Theodore, it belonged to a family distinguished from Rome. Very popular, it assembled the levels of the ecclesiastical hierarchy gradually, becoming notary régionnaire, then sub-deacon with the call of Paul Ier, before being named Diacre by Etienne III. Its zeal and its piety made it elect pope the February 9th 772, at one moment when the Church of Rome needed a guard. The attitude of the emperors of the East in his connection indeed inspired to the pope the desire to escape the influence from the court from Constantinople (influence which was weakening in Italy because of arrival of Lombards and the distance of the capital of the Empire). But Lombards themselves posed problem with the pope: certain monarchs had made donations which them successors had revoked. Previously, Etienne II had had to call for the aid Pépin the Brief to force the king of Lombards Astolfe to a whole restitution.

Didier, then king of Lombards, reconsidered the treaty obtained thanks to the help of Pip the Brief, and had taken again several cities of the exarchat of Ravenne. To the imitation of Etienne II, Adrien Ier was thus addressed to Charlemagne. This last went to Rome and was accepted with all the honors by the pope, at the end of the Lent of 774. Charlemagne confirmed to the pope the donations made by his predecessors, before turning over to besiege Pavia, capital of Didier. This one went, and was sent in France, with the monastery of Corbie, to finish its days there. Charlemagne added the title of king of Lombards to his title of king of the Francs. It was a decisive stage in the restoration of the Western Empire. He died after 23 years of reign and was regretted Romans. Charlemagne made him make this epitaph:

Nominated jungo simul titulis, clarissime, will nostra:

Hadrianus, Carolus, rex ego, tuque Lord's Prayer.

Quisque legas versus, devoto pectore, supplex

Amborum mitis, dic, miserere Deus.

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