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	Marozia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Marozia also known as Mariuccia, given the unprecedented titles senatrix ("senatoress") and patricia of Rome by Pope John X, was born about 890, and died, imprisoned by her son Alberic II, duke of Spoleto, between 932 and 937.
		Edward Gibbon (though confusing Theodora (the mother of Marozia) with Theodora (the sister of Marozia)) wrote memorably of her that the "influence of two sister prostitutes, Marozia and Theodora, was founded on their wealth and beauty, their political and amorous intrigues.
		Alberic II, Marozia's son, led the opposition to the rule of Marozia and Hugh.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marozia (538 words)

	Marozia
		Marozia also known as Mariuccia, Senatrix and Patria of Rome was born about 890, and died, imprisoned by her son, between 932 and 937; she was daughter of Theophylactus and of Theodora, whom Liutprand characterized as a "shameless whore..[who] exercised power on the Roman citizenry like a man".
		The bastard son, the grandson, and the great grandson of Marozia -- a rare genealogy -- were seated in the Chair of St. Peter." From this inaccurate description the term pornocracy[?] has become associated with the effective rule in Rome of Theodora and her daughter Marozia through male surrogates.
		By her husband Alberico I she was mother of Alberic II, Prince of the Romans, who in his turn was father of Octavian, who became Pope John XII[?].
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ma/Marozia.html (246 words)

	Marozia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Daughter of the Roman consul Theophylact and his wife Theodora, Marozia was strongly influenced by her mother who controlled Roman politics and the papacy in what has been called the pornocracy.”; The mistress of Pope Sergius III (904-11), Marozia married, in succession, Albert I of Spoleto (d.
		Marozia received the titles “senatrix” and “patricia” from Pope John X (914-28); she nevertheless had him put to death in 928 in order to install her favorite candidates in papal office (including one of her sons as Pope John XI; 931-35).
		In 932, Marozia was overthrown by Albert II of Spoleto, a son of her first marriage, who had her imprisoned until her death.
	www.coolencyclopedia.com /words/Marozia (122 words)

	The Rule of the Harlots - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		They were in particular under the influence of powerful women (though not necessarily prostitutes) in these families, especially Theodora and her daughters, Marozia and Theodora, of the Theophylact family.
		It is widely believed that Marozia was the concubine of Pope Sergius III and the mother of Pope John XI.
		She was also accused of having had Pope John X (who had originally been nominated for office by Theodora) murdered in order to secure the election of her current favourite, Pope Leo VI.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Rule_of_the_Harlots (345 words)

	Encyclopedia: The Pornocracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Marozia is thought to have been the "concubine" of Sergius III, and by him she had the man who would eventually become Pope John XI (r.
		Marozia herself was imprisoned by her son Alberic (II) in 932 as a result of her taking Hugh of Provence, the king of Italy, as her third husband--an action which outraged the inhabitants of Rome enough to revolt under Alberic's leadership.
		Marozia disappears from the records after this time, but her legacy of political control of the papacy lived on in her son's activities for another two decades.
	www.societaschristiana.com /sketches/P/Pornocracy.html (1046 words)

	f. The Papacy and Italy. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		The nadir of the papacy (the pornocracy”;): the landed aristocracy of Rome, under the leadership of the senator Theophylact, his wife, Theodora, and his daughter Marozia (mistress of Pope Sergius III and mother of Sergius's son John, later Pope John XI), dominated the curia.
		Marozia, having imprisoned Pope John XI, took control of Rome.
		The papacy was without political power or spiritual prestige, and the western Church for all practical purposes became a loose organism under its bishops, who gave “national churches” such coherence as they had, and acknowledged a vague kind of allegiance to Rome.
	www.bartleby.com /67/465.html (618 words)

	Marozia: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Alberic ii was ruler of rome from 932 to 954, after deposing his mother marozia and stepfather, king hugh of italy....
		Theodora was a senatrix of rome, mother of marozia, and concubine to pope sergius iii, whose pontificate, so far as is known, was remarkable for...
		The book of the popes or the liber pontificalis is a major source for early medieval history but was also met with intense critical scrutiny....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/marozia.htm (1618 words)

	EUROPEAN HISTORY 900 - 979
		Marozia is the daughter of a chief senator of Rome and her mother had already made and unmade two bishops of Rome.
		Marozia Mistress of Sergius III bishop of Rome imprisoned John X bishop of Rome effectively taking control of Rome for her son John XI bishop of Rome and also dominated the Curia.
		The grandson of Marozia an 18 year old boy called Octavian the bastard, became John XII (955-963) bishop of Rome being the second bishop of Rome to change his name John II in 533 is the first.
	www3.telus.net /public/dgarneau/euro46.htm (2789 words)

	THE MEDIEVAL PAPACY
		Theophylact's daughter, Marozia, a young girl of 12 or 13, became the pope's mistress.
		Marozia became pregnant and bore the Roman bishop a son.
		Marozia appointed the next three popes, one of them her illegitimate son by Sergius.
	www.christianchronicler.com /history1/medieval_papacy.html (1300 words)

	Marozia: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Marozia also known as Mariuccia, given the unprecedented titles senatrix ("senatoress") and patricia of Rome Capital and largest city of Italy; on the Tiber; seat of the Roman Catholic Church; formerly the capital of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire
		She was the daughter of the Roman consul Theophylact, Count of Tusculum In the early 10th century, theophylact, count of tusculum and his beautiful and unscrupulous wife, theodora controlled the city of rome and the papacy....
		When Guy died in 929[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject], Marozia negotiated a marriage with his half-brother, Hugh of Arles Hugh of arles was born sometime before 887, the son of theobald of arles and of bertha, illegitimate daughter of lothar ii of lotharingia....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /m/marozia (1409 words)

	Pope John XI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He was the son of Marozia by her first marriage with Alberic; some, taking Liutprand and the "Liber Pontificalis" as their authority, assert that he was the natural son of Sergius III ("Johannes, natione Romanus ex patre Sergio papa", "Liber Pont." ed.
		To strengthen her own power Marozia married her brother-in-law Hugh, King of Provence and Italy, whose reign in Rome was so tyrannical that a strong opposition party sprang up among the nobles under the leadership of Alberic II, the younger son of Marozia.
		This party succeeded in overthrowing the rule of Marozia and Hugh; Marozia was cast into prison, but her husband escaped from the city.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/j/john_xi,pope.html (321 words)

	Joseph McCabe: The Popes and Their Church: Chapter 3
		These were, principally, the young woman Marozia, to whom I have referred, and her mother Theodora, wife of one of the highest officers of the city.
		While Marozia was mistress of the reigning Pope, her mother had a liaison with the fascinating Bishop of Ravenna, and, when the brief reigns of Sergius's two successors were over, she and her husband secured the Papacy for this man (914).
		Marozia and her latest lover were angry because John gave so much power and wealth to his brother Peter, and before long their men burst into the Lateran Palace and laid Peter dead at the feet of the Pope.
	www.infidels.org /library/historical/joseph_mccabe/popes_and_church/PandC-3.html (3377 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The influence of two sister prostitutes, Marozia and Theodora, was founded on their wealth and beauty, their political and amorous intrigues.
		There were two Theodoras, and the one Gibbon had in mind was not Marozia's sister but her mother; and they were certainly not prostitutes in the generally accepted sense, for they were the daughter and wife respectively of no less a person than Theophylact, the senator of Rome, civic head of the city.
		Marozia gained for herself the title of senatrix--the undoubted mistress of Rome, ruling the city between the years 926 and 932 as its lord and so providing a model for the far less colorful "Pope Joan".
	mac9.ucc.nau.edu /pub/Misc/SCA/Ioseph/general_SCA/popejoan.txt (767 words)

	Pornocracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Theodora, the wife of a powerful Roman judge, initially garnered influence because her daughter was the mistress of Pope Sergius III (904-911).
		After her mother's death, Marozia rose to power and masterminded the overthrow of John X. She allowed two inconsequential Popes to rule for a short time until her son, Pope Sergius' bastard child, was old enough to assume the papacy.
		Marozia's scorned second son by her first marriage, Alberic, eventually foiled his mother's grandiose aspirations; he led a revolt against her and became Prince of Rome.
	www.shelltown.net /~cwoodard/pope/time35.htm (222 words)

	SBU Dept. of History & Political Science: HIS 1113 Lecture Twenty-five (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Marozia was accused of having Pope John murdered in 928 in order to secure the election of her current favorite, Pope Leo VI (928-29).
		While her young son, Alberic II, was taking over the political reins of Rome, Marozia brought forward a totally unknown 21-year-old and had him consecrated as John XI (931-935).
		When Marozia married a third time in 932, her son Alberic II drove the couple from the city.
	falcon.sbuniv.edu /~hgallatin/hi13le25.html (4176 words)

	Rejection of Pascal's Wager: Popes Throughout History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Marozia’s mother, Theodora, was not to be outdone by her daughter in their family game of papal sexual roulette.
		Marozia had ideas of her own though, she married Alberic and then, very probably, egged him on the take on the pope.
		The next two popes were merely stop-gap instruments of Marozia- to warm the papal throne until her son could ascend to it.
	www.geocities.com /paulntobin/papacy.html (7813 words)

	JOHN XI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		His mother Marozia now dominated the political scene in Rome, and when Stephen VIII died, it was small wonder that her son John should be chosen pope.
		His mother Marozia naturally had strong influence over her young son.
		Hugh was at first well received by the Romans, but soon it became clear that Marozia's son Alberic II was not happy.
	www.cfpeople.org /Books/Pope/POPEp126.htm (406 words)

	iqexpand.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The alleged mistress of Pope Sergius III, her husbands were Alberico I, duke of Spoleto (died 926); Guido of Tuscany (died 929); and Hugh of Arles, who had been elected King of Italy.
		He was the son of Marozia by her first marriage with Alberic; some, taking Liutprand and the "Liber Pontificalis" as their authority, assert that he was the natural son of Sergius III ("Johannes...
		John XI was the son of Marozia and Alberic.
	marozia.iqexpand.com /index.php?title=Recentchangeslinked&target=Marozia (641 words)

	A HISTORY OF THE CHURCH To the Eve of the Reformation : L.4, C.5.
		Next came John X (914-928) alleged to be the lover, not of Marozia, but of her mother.
		He, too, was of the party of Stephen VI and Sergius III, but he showed himself a strong ruler and a capable soldier, organising a league of princes against the Saracens, defeating them in a great battle in 916 and routing them from their stronghold on the Garigliano.
		But this powerful rival, none the less, was not all-powerful and to the regime of 904-963 there succeeded a period of confusion where the emperor or the great Roman family chose the pope, according to the opportunity of the moment.
	www.franciscan-sfo.org /ap/hu/hb4-5.htm (4321 words)

	Marozia - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Guy had him smothered with a pillow in 928, and Marozia seized power in Rome in a coup d 'etat.
		When Guy died in 929, Marozia negotiated a marriage with his half-brother, Hugh of Arles, who had been elected King of Italy.
		You can find it there under the keyword Marozia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marozia)The list of previous authors is available here: version history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maroziaandaction=history).
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Marozia (584 words)

	History of the Mass (6histort.htm)
		Leo died in December of the same year and Marozia was forced to push for the elevation of another puppet pope - since her own son was in no way ready.
		It was during the first year of his papacy that Marozia had John X suffocated as we detailed in the last installment.
		By 933 Marozia had plotted to the point where she was marrying off her young daughter Bertha to a royal prince whom the eastern emperor Romanus I had raised and groomed as his successor.
	www.dailycatholic.org /hist/6histort.htm (1752 words)

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