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Also known as Pope Pelagius I, Pope Pelagius, Pelagius

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Pelagius I, also referred to as Pelagius I Paus, was a historical figure born in 505. He died on either March 4 or March 5, 0561. Records indicate that he is recognized within the Popes collection.

Attributed works by Pelagius I include *Pelagii diaconi Ecclesiae Romanae In defensione trium capitulorum*. Various sources list differing counts for his works, with figures of 1, 4, and 5 appearing in different databases. His entry is referenced by 351 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 14 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Europeana Sparql, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
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Top works

  • Pelagii diaconi Ecclesiae Romanae In defensione trium capitulorum

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Writ of Henry III. To John of Monmouth

    · 1872 · cited 1x

  2. Napoleon at St. Helena

    · 1872

  3. A Font cover

    · 1882

  4. Rt. Hon. Richard Hamilton, 1767

    · 1875

  5. “David's Teares.”

    · 1874

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Works in European collections

4 objects attributed to Pelagius I, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Pope Pelagius I (died 3 March 561) was the bishop of Rome from 16 April 556 to his death on 3 March 561. A former apocrisiarius to Constantinople, Pelagius I was elected pope as the candidate of Emperor Justinian I, a designation not well received in the Western Church. Before his papacy, he opposed Justinian's efforts to condemn the "Three Chapters" in order to reconcile theological factions within the Church, but later adopted Justinian's position.

Family and early career

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pelagius I” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.