Marozia

Stay Thirsty's dam Marozia—by Storm Bird— won at the 1½-mile distance racing in England.

A Case for the Local Horse Pia Catton 2011

Stay Thirsty's dam Marozia—by Storm Bird— won at the 1½-mile distance racing in England.

A Case for the Local Horse Pia Catton 2011

Indeed, Marozia was responsible for putting nine popes in office over a period of eight years; they were either murdered or disappeared under mysterious circumstances.

Archive 2009-02-01 elena maria vidal 2009

The folklore of Rome and fading memories of Marozia, Theodora and Raineria were gradually woven into a thrilling and scandalous story of the forbidden.

Archive 2009-02-01 elena maria vidal 2009

Sergius III., and of the famous Marozia; but an instance is not a law.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

If any canon of influence and wealth comes forward, and offers the grand vizier a large sum, the titular possessor is deprived, and the place given to the last bidder; precisely as the see of Rome was disposed of, in the tenth century, by Marozia and Theodora.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Sergius later had a son by his teenaged mistress Marozia who became Pope John XI 931-935.

Snow Angels The Pedgehog 2007

"Look at him," Marozia whispered to one of her strapping sons.

Bridge of the Separator Turtledove, Harry 2005

Marozia gave Rhavas a stack of barley cakes, a bowl of chicken stew thick with meat and peas and beans and chunks of turnip, and a mug of fruit-sweet blackberry wine.

Bridge of the Separator Turtledove, Harry 2005

Marozia handed him another one, plainly the best in the house, of thick, soft wool.

Bridge of the Separator Turtledove, Harry 2005