6" Called by some Martin II.—If
he was chosen and ordained a few days
after the death of Pope John, in De-
cember, 822, as we are told he was,
and held the see one year and five
months, his death must have happened
in May, 884." Bower, v. 57, 58.

7" He was chosen and ordained, so
far as we can conjecture from the
duration of his pontificate, in the latter
end of May, or the beginning of June,
884. If Hadrian held the see one
year and four months, as we read in
most of the catalogues of the popes,
his death must have happened about
the month of September, 885." Ibid.
59, 60.

8 "That Stephen governed the Ro-
man church nine years, and should be
called, not the sixth but the fifth of
that name, appears from his epitaph."
Ibid. 65.

9"He is the first that was trans-
lated from another see to that of Rome,
the preceding popes having been all
chosen from among the presbyters and
deacons of that church." Ibid. 66.

1

"He is said by the continuator of
the Annals of Fulda, who lived at this
time, to have died of the gout at the
end of fifteen days. As he held the
see so short a time, and intruded him-
self into it by open force, Baronius,
and after him some other writers, have
not allowed him a place among the
popes." Ibid. 72.

Stephen is known to have been
pope before Aug. 20, 896, and Ro-
manus, in October, 897. Ibid. 75.

...891

Ap. 4, 896

3" If he held the see but three
months and twenty-two days, he mast
have died about the end of January,
898." Ibid. 76.

"He held the see but twenty days"
Ibid. 76.

5 "John IX. held the see, accoring
to the most probable opinion, two years
and fifteen days, and must,
quently, have died about the beg
of August, 900, it being manifest from
some of his letters, that he was 1
possession of the see in July, “
Ibid. 79.

"Benedict died, according to the
most probable opinion, about the be
ginning of October, 903." Ibid. 84.

7 He was driven out of the see, and
put into prison, after about a mott's
possession. He is said to have dies of
grief in prison. Ibid. 85.

8 "All we know of him is, that be
intruded himself into the see by c
force and violence, that he treated b
predecessor with great barbarity, and
confirmed all the privileges that be
predecessors had granted to the fa-
mous abbey of Corbie. The dip a
confirming these privileges is dated
VII. Cal. Jan. Indict. VII. that is
the twenty-fifth of December, 93
Christopher, therefore, had seized o
the see before the twenty-fifth of De
cember of the present year. But he
held it, as we read in Martinus P
nus, in Flodoard, and in most of the
catalogues, only six, or at mosi, seven
months." Ibid. 85.