Pope Adrian V

Pope Adrian V
Adrian V
Papacy began 11 July 1276
Papacy ended 18 August 1276
Predecessor Innocent V
Successor John XXI
Personal details
Birth name Ottobuono de' Fieschi
Born c. 1210–1220
Genoa, Republic of Genoa, Holy Roman Empire
Died 18 August 1276(1276-08-18)
Viterbo, Papal States, Holy Roman Empire
Other Popes named Adrian
Papal styles of
Pope Adrian V
C o a Adriano V.svg
Reference style His Holiness
Spoken style Your Holiness
Religious style Holy Father
Posthumous style None

Pope Adrian V (c. 1210/20 – 18 August 1276), born Ottobuono de' Fieschi, was pope in 1276.

Biography

Ottobuono belonged to a feudal family of Liguria, the Fieschi, Counts of Lavagna.

His first clerical position came in 1243, when he was created a papal chaplain. Subsequently he received several ecclesiestical benefices, becoming archdeacon in Bologna (1244) and Parma (1244/48–1255), canon and chancellor of the cathedral chapter in Reims (1243–1250), canon and dean of the chapter in Piacenza (ca. 1247) and canon of the cathedral chapter in Paris (1244/45–1270). In December 1251, he was created Cardinal Deacon of San Adriano by his uncle Pope Innocent IV (1243–54). He was also archpriest of the patriarchal Liberian Basilica (attested from 1262).

Coat of Arms of Pope Adrian V.

He was sent to England in 1265 by Pope Clement IV (1265–68) to mediate between Henry III of England (1216–72) and his barons, and to preach the Crusades; he remained there for several years as the papal legate, serving from October 1265 to July 1268. His diplomatic position was such that his name is still on the oldest extant piece of English statute law, the Statute of Marlborough of 1267, where the formal title mentions as a witness "the Lord Ottobon, at that time legate in England". (Also on this legation was a young diplomat, the future Boniface VIII.) In April 1268 he issued a set of canons, which formed the basis of church law in England until the reformation of the sixteenth century.

Under the influence of Charles of Anjou, he was elected pope to succeed Innocent V on 12 July 1276 but died at Viterbo on 18 August 1276 from illness without ever having been ordained to the priesthood; he is buried there in the church of S. Francesco. Technically, since Adrian V was never ordained bishop, he never truly became the Bishop of Rome, but traditionally he is counted in the papal succession. Adrian V was the third pope in "The Year of Four Popes" of 1276.

He achieved little during his time as pope; he annulled Pope Gregory X's (1271–76) bull on the holding of papal conclaves, but died before enacting new regulations.

His funerary monument, attributed to Arnolfo di Cambio, is in the church of San Francesco alla Rocca at Viterbo.

Popular Culture

In the Divine Comedy, Dante meets Adrian's spirit in Purgatory, on the level reserved for the avaricious, where Adrian is atoning for his sin of worldly ambition.

References

  • Wikisource-logo.svg "Pope Adrian V" in the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia.
  • Maxwell-Stuart, P. G. Chronicle of the Popes: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Papacy from St. Peter to the Present, Thames & Hudson, 2002, p. 117–118. ISBN 0500017980.
  • A. Paravicini Bagliani, Cardinali di curia e familiae cardinalizie dal 1227 al 1254, Padova 1972, p. 358–365
Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Innocent V
Pope
1276
Succeeded by
John XXI

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