pope of the Catholic Church from 1144 to 1145
Lucius II was a pope who led the Catholic Church for about a year, from 1144 to 1145. While his papacy was brief, he served during an important period in Church history when the pope's religious and political authority was constantly being tested.
AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Lucius+II">Read more on Last.fm</a>
5 total works indexed
· 2012 · cited 6,597x
· 2016 · cited 2,817x
· 2008 · cited 1,740x
· 2002 · cited 1,330x
19th-century religious card depicting Lucius II Pope Lucius II (died 15 February 1145), born Gherardo Caccianemici dal Orso, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 9 March 1144 to his death in 1145. His pontificate was notable for the unrest in Rome associated with the Commune of Rome and its attempts to wrest control of the city from the papacy. He supported Empress Matilda's claim to the Kingdom of England in the Anarchy, and had a tense relationship with King Roger II of Sicily.
Early life
· 1999 · cited 1,283x
via Crossref · CC0
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).