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	John VIII (d. 882) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		John was a deacon of the Roman church when elected on Dec. 14, 872, to succeed Pope Adrian II.
		Meanwhile, John was harassed by the cardinal bishop of Porto, Formosus (later pope), and his supporting faction.
		John solved a controversy over orthodoxy between the Holy See and the East by recognizing in 879 the heretofore condemned Photius as patriarch of Constantinople.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /gbrown/philosophers/leibniz/BritannicaPages/PopeJohn-VIII/PopeJohn-VIII.html (179 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope John VIII
		The more important acts of John's reign may be divided into four groups, according as they relate to the affairs of Eastern Europe, to the empire of the West, to Southern Italy and the Saracens, or to those persons with whom he came into more frequent contact.
		John had to write "that all our coasts have been plundered, and the Saracens are as much at home in Fundi and Terracina as in Africa." To make head against these terrible enemies of Christianity John spared not his person, his time, nor his money.
		John received in Rome Burhred (Burgraed), King of Mercia, whom the miseries which the Danes were causing throughout England had driven to seek peace at the shrine of the Apostles.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/08423c.htm (1958 words)

	Britannia: Monarchs of Britain
		The dispute centered on John's stubborn refusal to install the papal candidate, Stephen Langdon, as Archbishop of Canterbury; the issue was not resolved until John surrendered to the wishes of Pope Innocent III and paid tribute for England as the Pope's vassal.
		John only signed the document as a means of buying time and his hesitance to implement its principles compelled the nobility to seek French assistance.
		John died in the midst of invasion from the French in the South and rebellion from his barons in the North.
	www.britannia.com /history/monarchs/mon28.html (591 words)

	JOHN VIII, pope. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		John strenuously opposed the activities of St. Ignatius of Constantinople in Bulgaria.
		When Ignatius died, John recognized Photius as patriarch and called the council (879–80) that momentarily reconciled the differences between East and West.
		He crowned Charles II (Charles the Bald) emperor and excommunicated the future Pope Formosus for opposition to his policy.
	www.bartleby.com /aol/65/jo/John8.html (118 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - John VIII
		John VIII (820-882), pope (872-882), often considered one of the ablest pontiffs of the 9th century.
		John VIII Palaeologus (1390-1448), Byzantine emperor (1425-1448), eldest son and successor of Emperor Manuel II.
		Louis VIII (1187-1226), King of France (1223-1226), son and successor of Philip II (Philip Augustus), born in Paris.
	au.encarta.msn.com /John_VIII.html (74 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		The defendants made their defence and pleaded to an issue therein, whereupon a venire faciat was awarded by the stewward of the said court to the bailiff of the said manor to return 12 of the customary tenants, to try the issue between the parties.
		John Alyn, aged 56 years, says that richard Wilkes the younger made a letter of attroney tohim and one Richard waynewright to surrender in the lord's hands all such lands as he held bycopy, tothe use of John levesonand his heirs for ever, and that the Dean has out ofthe said land 3d.
		Whether John Baylie came to teh said George Robynson to his hosue at Drayton, the 18th day of September last, and said to him that he ahd broken the liberties of the said lordship for the serving of the warrant Whether.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /courses/hgarrett/researchfiles/pub/stafstac.hcs (7599 words)

	JOHN VIII. - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN VIII. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		John attempted to temporize, but Lambert, duke of Spoleto, a partisan of Carloman, whom sickness had recalled to Germany, entered Rome in 878 with an overwhelming force, and for thirty days virtually held John a prisoner in St Peters.
		There be presided at the council of Troyes, which promulgated a ban of excommunication against the supporters of Carlomanamongst others Adalbert of Tuscany, Lambert of Spoleto, and Formosus, bishop of Porto, who was afterwards elevated to the papal chair.
		Before this, in order to secure the aid of the Greek emperor against the Saracens, he had agreed to sanction the restoration of Photius to the see of Constantinople, and had withdrawn his consent on finding that he reaped from the concession no substantial benefit.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /J/JO/JOHN_VIII_.htm (390 words)

	John VIII on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		(John Palaeologus), 1390-1448, Byzantine emperor (1425-48), son and successor of Manuel II.
		John sought in vain to secure Western aid by agreeing at the Council of Florence (1439) to the union of the Eastern and Western churches.
		Heretic hunting beyond the seas: John Brett and his encounter with the Marian exiles.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/j/john8b1yz.asp (453 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: John VIII: Indulgence for Fighting the Heathen, 878 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		John VIII to the bishops in the realm of Louis II [the Stammerer].
		You have modestly expressed a desire to know whether those who have recently died in war, fighting in defence of the church of God and for the preservation of the Christian religion and of the state, or those who may in 'he future fall in the same cause, may obtain indulgence for their sins.
		The pope who was ruling in 878 was John VIII (872-882).
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/john2-ind878.html (231 words)

	Medal of Emperor John VIII Palaeologus (obverse) by PISANELLO
		John VIII Palaeologus (1390-1448) was a Byzantine emperor who spent his reign appealing to the West for help against the final assaults by the Ottoman Turks on the Byzantine Empire.
		Son of Manuel II Palaeologus, John was crowned co-emperor with his father in 1421 and succeeded him in July 1425.
		John's spirit was broken, and intrigues over the succession, coupled with news of the Turkish victory over the Hungarians in the Second Battle of Kosovo in October 1448, hastened his death.
	gallery.euroweb.hu /html/p/pisanell/medals/palaigol.html (256 words)

	John IV of HATZFELD - Margarethe of HATZFELD
		\-Lukarde of EFFERTZHAUSEN John VI of HATZFELD \-Katharina of DRACHENFELS
		\-Katharina of DRACHENFELS John XI of HATZFELD \-Maria of NESSELRODE
		\-Maria of NESSELRODE John XIV of HATZFELD \-Johanna of HARFF
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~dphaner/HTML/people/p00000g9.htm (1108 words)

	Pope John VIII -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		John VIII was (The head of the Roman Catholic Church) pope from (Click link for more info and facts about 872) 872 to (Click link for more info and facts about 882) 882.
		Methodius against his German enemies, who objected to his use of the (A branch of the Indo European family of language) Slavonic language in the (A rite or body of rites prescribed for public worship) liturgy.
		According to the legend of (Click link for more info and facts about Pope Joan) Pope Joan, a woman named Joan reigned as Pope under the name of John VIII earlier in the 9th century; the legend says that she was erased from the historical record when her identity was discovered.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/po/pope_john_viii3.htm (302 words)

	british monarchy - mong09 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Edward John VIII Spencer Earl of Spencer [Parents] was born on 24 Jan 1924.
		She married Edward John VIII Spencer Earl of Spencer in 1954 in Westminster Abbey.
		John Campbell Duke of Argyll was born in 1845.
	freepages.history.rootsweb.com /~wakefield/monarchy/mong09.htm (886 words)

	JOHN VIII
		Although Photius did tamper with papal letters, he explained the matter to Pope John's satisfaction, and John not only acknowledged Photius but approved the acts of this synod which wiped out the synod of 869-870, the so-called Eighth Ecumenical Council.
		Emperor Basil cooperated with Pope John in his efforts against the Saracens.
		According to one German annalist, a relative of Pope John gave him poison, but sick and old though the Pope was, the poison worked slowly.
	www.cfpeople.org /Books/Pope/POPEp108.htm (487 words)

	HLS Library: English Deeds Collection 701-800
		SUMMARY: Grant by John Chocke, knight, to Reginald Bray, knight, Thomas Lovelle, knight, Richard Ryven, and John Tauntone, of all his lands and tenements with their appurtenances in Westhorpetre and Dounhege (Somers.), to hold to the use of John Pole, his heirs and assigns, for ever, by the customary rents and services.
		With a note stating that the charter was duly recognized in the court of John Gybon on 10 September.
		SUMMARY: Bond of John Freeman of Chelmsford (Essex), gentleman, to Robert Rownd of Chelmsford, mercer, in the sum of 200 to secure the observance by John Freeman of all the covenants in a pair of indentures of even date.
	www.law.harvard.edu /library/collections/special/manuscripts/deeds/deeds9.php (4740 words)

	HLS Library: English Deeds Collection 51-100
		SUMMARY: Grant by Robert Beleboche to John de Leghe of a moiety of all his land of la Forda in the manor of la Hedirlond and a moiety of the land called Vynnislond in the said manor, in free marriage with Alice his daughter, at a yearly rent of 18d.
		WITNESSES: John Ferres, knight, Walter Griffith, knight, Thomas Rolston, esquire, Edmund Wetton, valet of the crown of the king, William Astelles.
		SUMMARY: Grant by Richard de Bilynton of Pyrie (Kent) to John, son of Hugh le Schepeherde, of Echeles (Kent) of all the lands and goods which he had in the fee of Echeles of the gift of the said John, to hold to John and Mary his wife for their life.
	www.law.harvard.edu /library/collections/special/manuscripts/deeds/deeds2.php (2669 words)

	Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 - pafg890 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		John VIII the YOUNG Count was born 1583 and died 1638.
		John VIII the YOUNG Count [Parents] was born 1583.
		John married Ernestina Yolanda DE LIGNE on 1618.
	www.peterwestern.f9.co.uk /maximilia/pafg890.htm (251 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - John VIII Palaeologus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		John III Ducas Vatatzes (1193-1254), Byzantine emperor (1222-1254), who, by his military successes and external policies, isolated the Latin Empire...
		Palaeologus, family that ruled the Byzantine Empire from 1261 until it fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1453.
		In 1421, Manuel relinquished the government of the empire to his son, John VIII Palaeologus, and two years later sought seclusion in a monastery.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /John_VIII_Palaeologus.html (127 words)

	The Ecole Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		The first pope to have been assassinated, John VIII is also thought to have been a name substituted for that of Pope Joan.
		Born in Rome, John was the son of Gundo and was an archdeacon for 20 years before being elected pope in 872.
		Before his murder in 882, allegedly at the hands of members of the papal household, John crowned two emperors, Charles the Bald and Charles the Fat.
	www2.evansville.edu /ecoleweb/glossary/johnviii.html (141 words)

	british monarchy - mong21 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		She married Edward John VIII Spencer Earl of Spencer on 14 Jul 1976 in Caxton Hall.
		Albert Edward John Spencer Earl of Spencer [Parents] was born in 1892.
		Edward John VIII Spencer Earl of Spencer was born on 24 Jan 1924 and died on 29 Mar 1992.
	freepages.history.rootsweb.com /~wakefield/monarchy/mong21.htm (483 words)

	Patron Saints Index: Pope John VIII
		When Ignatius died, John recognized Photius as patriarch and called the council (879-880) that briefly reconciled differences between East and West.
		He did much to root out corruption in the church in Rome, excommunicated corrupt nobility, and was one of the strongest popes of the 9th century, though he was forced to bribe Saracens to keep them out of Rome.
		He crowned Charles the Bald as emperor, and excommunicated the future Pope Formosus for opposing him.
	www.catholic-forum.com /saints/pope0107.htm (166 words)

	Footnotes 1
		Yet on this point too Wesley allows the orthodox outlook to remain unaltered in the Treatise on Baptism, which holds that deliverance from original guilt is not effected until baptism.
		The relation of the natural man to the invisible world is here compared with that of a toad to the visible world; both are enveloped in darkness.
		VIII in The Articles of Religion, 1784, Corp. Conf., Die Methodistenkirche, p.
	homepage.mac.com /craigadams1/WESSANCT/FOOTNTS01.html (5708 words)

	Franklin
		JOHN S.3 FRANKLIN (SAMUEL2, JOHN1) was born January 14, 1817 in Linville Falls, NC, and died February 1, 1900 in Montezuma NC.
		JOHN E.4 FRANKLIN (ISAAC3, SAMUEL2, JOHN1) was born June 25, 1831 in Mitchell Co NC, and died April 19, 1917 in Warlick's Baptist Church.
		She was born June 26, 1849, and died January 14, 1908 in St. John Baptist Church, Burke Co. Children of JOSEPH FRANKLIN and MARY CLOUD are: 31.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Hills/4665/franklin.html (1969 words)

	John VIII (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		There is a reasonable body of evidence to suggest that John was Joan, or at least as much credible evidence as there is to support other historical myths like the crucifixion of Jesus Christ or the construction of Alexandria.
		What little we know for sure indicates that John VIII was a controversial pope, but this isn't exactly a point of great distinction in the ninth century church, when intramural political battles were the rule of the day.
		Formosus was excommunicated by John/Joan, recommunicated after his/her death, subsequently elected pope himself, died, then was re-excommunicated, his grave desecrated and his papacy revoked posthumously, all of which was subsequently reversed a couple of decades later.
	www.rotten.com /library/bio/religion/popes/john-viii (899 words)

	Pope Joan
		As Pope John VIII he ruled for two years, until 855 A.D. However, while riding one day from St. Peter's to the Lateran, he had to stop by the side of the road and, to the astonishment of everyone, gave birth to a child.
		It turned out that Pope John VIII was really a woman.
		According to legend, upon discovering the Pope's true gender, the people of Rome tied her feet together and dragged her behind a horse while stoning her, until she died.
	www.museumofhoaxes.com /popeJoan.html (388 words)

	Patron Saints Index: Saint John Leonardi
		The Clerks were confirmed on 13 October 1595 by Pope Clement VIII, but John was exiled from Lucca for most of the rest of his life.
		John was assisted in his exile by Saint Philip Neri, who gave him his quarters - and his pet cat!
		In 1579 he formed the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, and published a compendium of Christian doctrine that remained in use until the 19th century.
	www.catholic-forum.com /saints/saintj47.htm (236 words)

	Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 - pafg966 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Andrew of VOLGODA was born 4 Aug 1452.
		John VIII of Byzantium PALAEOLOGUS [Parents] was born 21 Jul 1391.
		Anna married John VIII of Byzantium PALAEOLOGUS on 1411.
	www.peterwestern.f9.co.uk /maximilia/pafg966.htm (379 words)

	Fletcher, John
		When not quite 12, John was apparently admitted pensioner of Bene't (now Corpus Christi) College, Cambridge, and two years later became a Bible clerk.
		From the time of his father's death (1596) until 1607 nothing is known of him, although the evidence of his later plays indicates that he had not inherited his father's religious bigotry.
		Squier, John Fletcher (1986), is a biography and critical introduction.
	search.eb.com /shakespeare/micro/211/91.html (850 words)

	JOHN FAIN ANDERSON COLLECTION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Provenance: The papers of John Fain Anderson were donated to the Archives of Appalachia on October 21, 1986 by Janis M. Anderson, L. Brabson Jr., Katherine Brabson Vallila, Margaret Ruth Brabson, Stanley Sylvester Anderson, William Fain Anderson, and David W. Gott.
		John Fain Anderson, born November 17, 1844, in Blountville, Sullivan County, Tennessee, was the son of Samuel Anderson (1805-1849) and his wife Hannah Crawford Fain (1811-1891).
		John Fain Anderson died at his home on Sunday, April 28, 1929.
	cass.etsu.edu /archives/afindaid/a288.htm (2563 words)

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