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Also known as Roland of Siena, Pope Alexander III

pope of the Catholic Church from 1159 to 1181

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Alexander III, also known as Alexander III Pope, was a figure recognized in the Popes collection. He was born in 1100 and died on August 30, 1181. His notable works include the *Summa magistri Rolandi*, *Die Sentenzen Rolands nachmals Papstes Alexander III*, and *Istoria de Papa Alexandro e de Federicho barbarossa*. He is referenced by 1,123 other encyclopedia articles.

A separate entity named Alexander III is an artist from Japan, classified under the genres of chip, clean up, rockman, and vgm. This artist is associated with electronic music and has a playcount of 152 with 50 listeners on Last.fm.

Synthesized by Vinony from 20 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Europeana Sparql, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Died
1181
Works
13

Top works

  • Summa magistri Rolandi
  • Die Sentenzen Rolands nachmals Papstes Alexander III
  • Summa magistri Rolandi
  • Die Sentenzen Rolands nachmals Papstes Alexander III
  • Istoria de Papa Alexandro e de Federicho barbarossa

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
50
Total plays
152

Tags

electronic

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Works in European collections

10 objects attributed to Alexander III, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Pope Alexander III (c. 1100/1105 – 30 August 1181), born Roland (Italian: Rolando), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 7 September 1159 until his death in 1181.

A native of Siena, Alexander became pope after a contested election, but had to spend much of his pontificate outside Rome while several rivals, supported by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa, claimed the papacy. Alexander rejected Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos' offer to end the East–West Schism, sanctioned the Northern Crusades, and held the Third Council of the Lateran. He canonized Thomas Becket and Bernard of Clairvaux. The city of Alessandria in Piedmont is named after him.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alexander III” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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