Nicholas Breakspear - definition of Nicholas Breakspear by The Free Dictionary
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Adrian IV
(Biography) original name Nicholas Breakspear. ?1100–59, the only English pope (1154–59)
Adrian
n.
(Nicholas Breakspear), c1100–59, pope 1154–59: the only English pope.
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THE only British only Pope was Nicholas Breakspear, of St Albans, who was Adrian IV from 1154 to 1159.
Murder at the election of only English pope
Written in the last years of William's life, Book II focuses on the career of Henry II and includes important events such as the murder of Thomas Becket, the capture of the King of Scots at Alnwick, the first subjugation of the Irish by the English, and the career of Nicholas Breakspear, the only Englishman ever to become Pope.