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From The Lives of the Popes from the Time of our Saviour Jesus Christ to the Accession of Gregory VII. Written Originally in Latin by B. Platina, Native of Cremona, and translated into English (from an anonymous translation, first printed in 1685 by Sir Paul Rycaut), Edited by William Benham, Volume I, London: Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh, [1888, undated in text]; pp. 239-240.

The Lives of the Popes,
BY
B. Platina

Volume I.


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THEODORUS  II.

A.D. 898.

THEODORUS the Second, a Roman, followed the steps of these mutineers, for he restored the decrees of Formosus and preferred his friends. Arnulphus (according to some writers) still ruled in Italy, and in France Charles the Simple, Constantine, the son of Leo, being emperor of the East, at which time the Saracens, invading Apulia, possessed themselves of Mount St Angelo, and took abundance of men and cattle; but the Italians hastily got together an army, set upon them and recovered all with great slaughter of the enemies. While affairs went thus in Italy, William, Earl of Angoulême, surnamed Sector-ferri, of the lineage of Charles the Bald, 240 ordered the relics, which had been taken from the Chartreux Friars at the time of the Norman invasion, to be restored, for now that the Normans were quieted, he perceived there would be some uproar about them if they were not restored. Who the Normans were is not on all hands agreed: but they are said to have come into France from Norway. Theodorus, in the twentieth day of his papacy, died, leaving, through the shortness of his time, nothing memorable of himself.

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Previous Pope: 117. Romanus. 118. Theodorus II. Next Pope: 119. John IX.

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