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ADRIA (anc. Atria; the See also:form Adria or See also:Hadria is less correct: Hatria was a See also:town in See also:Picenum, the See also:modern See also:Atri)  , a See also:town and episcopal see of See also:Venetia, See also:Italy, in the See also:province of See also:Rovigo, 15 M . K by See also:rail from the town of Rovigo . It is situated between the mouths of the See also:Adige and the Po, about 13z M. from the See also:sea and but 13 ft. above it . Pop . (1901) 15,678 . The town occupies the site of the See also:ancient Atria, which gave its name to the Adriatic . Its origin is variously ascribed by ancient writers, but it was probably a Venetian, i.e . Illyrian, not an See also:Etruscan, See also:foundation—still less a foundation of See also:Dionysius I. of See also:Syracuse . Imported vases of the second See also:half of the 5th See also:century B.c. prove the existence of See also:trade with See also:Greece at that See also:period; and the town who entered a monastery and See also:left the boy to his own resources . See also:Nicholas went to See also:Paris and finally became a See also:monk of the See also:cloister of St See also:Rufus near See also:Arles . He See also:rose to be See also:prior and in 1137 was unanimously elected See also:abbot . His reforming zeal led to the lodging of complaints against him at See also:Rome; but these merely attracted to him the favourable See also:attention of See also:Eugenius III., who created him See also:cardinal See also:bishop of Albano .

From 1152 to 1154 Nicholas was in Scandinavia as See also:

legate, organizing the affairs of the new See also:Norwegian archbishopric of See also:Trondhjem, and making arrangements which resulted in the recognition of See also:Upsala as seat of the See also:Swedish See also:metropolitan in 1164 . As a See also:compensation for territory thus withdrawn the Danish See also:archbishop of See also:Lund was made legate and perpetual See also:vicar and given the See also:title of See also:primate of See also:Denmark and See also:Sweden . On his return Nicholas was received with See also:great See also:honour by . See also:Anastasius IV., and on the See also:death of the latter was elected See also:pope on the 4th of See also:December 1154 . He at once endeavoured to See also:compass the overthrow of See also:Arnold of See also:Brescia, the See also:leader of See also:anti-papal sentiment in Rome . Disorders ending with the See also:murder of a cardinal led See also:Adrian shortly before See also:Palm See also:Sunday 1155 to take the previously-unheard-of step of putting Rome under the See also:interdict . The See also:senate thereupon exiled Arnold, and the pope, with the impolitic co-operation of See also:Frederick I . See also:Barbarossa, was instrumental in procuring his See also:execution . Adrian crowned the See also:emperor at St See also:Peter's on the 18th of See also:June 1155, a ceremony which so incensed the See also:Romans that the pope had to leave the See also:city promptly, not returning till See also:November 1156 . With the aid of dissatisfied barons, Adrian brought See also:William I. of See also:Sicily into dire straits ; but a See also:change in the fortunes of See also:war led to a See also:settlement (June 1156) not advantageous to the papacy and displeasing to the emperor . At the See also:diet of See also:Besancon in See also:October 1157, the legates presented to Barbarossa a See also:letter from Adrian which alluded to the beneficia conferred upon the emperor, and the See also:German See also:chancellor translated this beneficia in the feudal sense . In the See also:storm which ensued the legates were glad to See also:escape with their lives, and the incident at length closed with a letter from the pope, declaring that by benefccium he meant merely bonum factum .

The See also:

breach subsequently became wider, and Adrian was about to excommunicate the emperor whet), he died at See also:Anagnia on the 1st of See also:September 1159 . A controversy exists concerning an See also:embassy sent by See also:Henry II. of See also:England to Adrian in 1155 . According to the elaborate investigation of Thatcher, the facts seem to be as follows . Henry asked for permission to invade and subjugate See also:Ireland, in See also:order to gain See also:absolute ownership of that isle . Unwilling to See also:grant a See also:request See also:counter to the papal claim (based on the forged Donation of See also:Constantine) to dominion over the islands of the sea, Adrian made Henry a conciliatory proposal, namely, that the See also:king should become hereditary feudal possessor of Ireland while recognizing the pope as overlord . This See also:compromise did not satisfy Henry, so the See also:matter dropped; Henry's subsequent title to Ireland rested on See also:conquest, not on papal concession, and was therefore absolute . The much-discussed See also:bull Laudabiliter is, however, not genuine . See See also:Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopddie, 3rd ed . (excellent bibliography), and Wetzer and Welte, Kirchenlexikon, and ed., under See also:Hadrian IV."; also See also:Oliver J Thatcher, Studies concerning Adrian IV . (The University of (-:hicago: Decennial Publications, 1st See also:series, vol. iv., See also:Chicago, 1903) ; R . Raby, Pope Adrian IV.: An h i,torual See also:Sketch (See also:London, 1849) ; and A . H .

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Tarleton, See also:Life of Nicholas Bre:kspear (London, 1896) .

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