Chronicon pontificum et imperatorum
work by Martin of Troppau
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support for legend of Pope Joan
- In Pope Joan
…in many manuscripts of the Chronicon pontificum et imperatorum (“Chronicle of the Popes and Emperors”) by the 13th-century Polish Dominican Martin of Troppau. Support for the version that she died in childbirth and was buried on the spot was derived from the fact that in later years papal processions used…
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