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STEPHEN - LoveToKnow Article on STEPHEN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07) |
 | | STEPHEN III., pope from the 7th of August 768 to the 3rd of February 772, was a native of Sicily, and, having come to iome during the pontificate of Gregory III., gradually rose to ligh office in the service of successive popes. |
 | | Stephen hastened against the rebels, bearing before him the banner of St Martin of Tours, whom he now chose to be his patron saint, and routed the rebels at Veszprem (998), a victory from which the foundation of the Hungarian monarchy must be dated, for Stephen assumed the royal title immediately afterwards. |
 | | Stephen was a keen and circumspect politician, and for his future security contracted, during his father's lifetime, a double1 matrimonial alliance with the Neapolitan princes of the House of Anjou, the chief partisans of the pope. |
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