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Alexander Pope was born in London on 21 May 1688 during the year of the Glorious Revolution. His father (Alexander Pope, 1646–1717) was a successful linen merchant in the Strand, London. His mother, Edith (née Turner, 1643–1733), was the daughter of William Turner, Esquire, of York. Both parents were Catholics. [3]
ALEXANDER Quartus: Rinaldo dei Conti di Segni: c. 1199 Jenne, Papal States: 55 / 62 Subject and later the sovereign of the Papal States. First pope born after the Papal States ceased to be a state of the Holy Roman Empire. Established an Inquisition in France. 182: 29 August 1261 – 2 October 1264 (3 years, 34 days) Urban IV VRBANVS Quartus ...
Pope Alexander VI [Note 2] (born Rodrigo de Borja; [Note 3]; epithet: Valentinus ("The Valencian"); [6] c. 1431 – 18 August 1503) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 11 August 1492 until his death in 1503.
Other Italian states where more popes were born were the Republic of Venice, ... Pope Alexander VII (1655–1667) Pope Clement IX (1667–1669) Pope Clement XII ...
Alexander VI (born Rodrigo Lanzol Borgia; 1431–1503) – served as pope from 11 August 1492 until his death on 18 August 1503; his maternal uncle was Callixtus III [2] Innocent X [ 3 ] (born Giovanni Battista Pamphilj (or Pamphili); 1574–1655) – served as pope from 15 September 1644 until his death on 7 January 1655; he was the great ...
"An Essay on Man" is a poem published by Alexander Pope in 1733–1734. ... Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such,
Alexander Pope was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts on March 25, 1849. He graduated from Dorchester High School, and worked for his family's lumber business. [1] [2] He married Alice Downer on September 16, 1873. [1] Pope studied with artist William Rimmer in the 1860s. [2] He began carving wildlife in his early twenties, and moved on to ...
Pope Alexander I (Greek: Αλέξανδρος, died c. 115) was the bishop of Rome from about 108/109 to 116/119 (according to the 2012 Annuario Pontificio). Some believe he suffered martyrdom under the Roman emperor Trajan or Hadrian .