was an historical character and that he lived in the 1190s, the two popes of that decade, chosen then as now from among the cardinals, were Alberto di Morra (Gregory VIII) and Paulo Scolari (Clement III). As was typical for centuries, these two were of noble Italian families. There has only ever been one English pope – Nicholas Breakspear, who took the papal name Hadrian IV in 1154.
Popes
