Breakspear

The only Englishman to become zenmomma was Nicholas Breakspear, who was zenmomma from 1154 to 1159.

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So I looked for any road with Breakspear in its name, just incase it was named after a nearby road or area.

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Hearing of Bernard's death (1153), Eskil made a pilgrimage to the saint's grave and thence to Rome, where all his archiepiscopal privileges were ratified by Pope Adrian IV (Breakspear).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

Breakspear, the only Englishman who ever became pope, had been elected

The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216) George Burton Adams 1888

"What is his name?" the people demand; and a cardinal answers, "Breakspear, a Briton."

Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions William Dean Howells 1878

Soon after Breakspear had become Pope, Robert and three bishops from the foreign dominions of Henry II. went as envoys to him from the King; the

Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Albans With an Account of the Fabric & a Short History of the Abbey Thomas Perkins 1874

Breakspear, a clerk from Langley, applied to him for admission to the

Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Albans With an Account of the Fabric & a Short History of the Abbey Thomas Perkins 1874

Jennifer Breakspear, executive director of Qmunity, which bills itself as B.C.'s queer resource centre, said she was disappointed that B.C. would accept the restriction as the price of doing business in China.

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Peter Julu, a consultant neurophysiologist at the Breakspear clinic in Hertfordshire, said his tests on pilots with memory loss leave no doubt that they were poisoned by fumes in the air used to pressurise Verb

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"We wanted somewhere more convenient and a bit more compact but we didn't want to get rid of all our old things," Breakspear says.

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