Pope Joan (Ioannes Anglicus, 855–857) was according to legend a woman who reigned as pope for two years during the Middle Ages. Her story first appeared...
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Pope Joan is a 1996 novel by American writer Donna Woolfolk Cross. It is based on the medieval legend of Pope Joan. For the most part this novel is the...
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Pope Joan (German: Die Päpstin) is 2009 epic historical drama film produced by Bernd Eichinger, based on American novelist Donna Woolfolk Cross' novel...
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Pope Joan is a 1972 British historical drama film based on the story of Pope Joan. Even though modern consensus generally considers Pope Joan to be legendary...
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indicating that the legend of Pope Joan may be based on a mistress of John XII: "Panvinius, in a note to Platina's account of pope Joan, suggests that the licentiousness...
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detestation the Pope." In the card game Pope Joan, very popular in the 19th century, 9♦ is the most powerful card, and it is called the "Pope". The game is...
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III, although a legend says he was succeeded by Pope Joan for two years. Nowadays, the story of Pope Joan is regarded by scholars as fictional. Leo IV was...
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Pope Joan is the subject of a medieval legend about a woman who reigned as pope. Pope Joan may also refer to: Pope Joan (1972 film) Pope Joan (2009 film)...
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Legends surrounding the papacy (category Pope Joan)
add up to 666, but to 214. The claim that a woman, often called Pope Joan, became pope first appeared in a Dominican chronicle in 1250. It soon spread...
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Pope Joan or Pope, a once popular Victorian family game, is an 18th-century English round game of cards for three to eight players derived from the French...
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century, the numbering error had been conflated with legends about a female Pope Joan, whom some authors called John VIII. She was never listed in the Annuario...
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Top Girls (category Pope Joan)
Shen (Lady Nijo/Mrs. Kidd), Kathryn Grody (Dull Gret/Angie), Linda Hunt (Pope Joan/Louise), and Valerie Mahaffey (Griselda/Shona/Kit). In 1991, the BBC and...
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Julie Murphy (born 1961) is an English singer. She sings in the Welsh folk group Fernhill, as well as performing and recording as a solo artist. She has...
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the allegations made in this section are disputed by modern historians. Pope Joan Antipope John XXIII Antipope Felix V History of clerical celibacy in the...
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The High Priestess (category Pope Joan)
labelled La Papesse, the Popess, a possible reference to the legend of Pope Joan. In the creation of the Rider–Waite Tarot deck, the Popess of the playing...
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Jean at the Royal Court Theatre (16 January 2006) Top Girls (reading) as Pope Joan at the Royal Court Theatre (19 September 2008) Pencil (10-minute play...
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and later appeared in films Assault (1971), Countess Dracula (1971) and Pope Joan (1972). She achieved fame as Georgina Worsley in the ITV period drama...
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Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children. She also appeared as Pope Joan in Caryl Churchill's Top Girls when London's Royal Court Theatre's production...
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Pope Joan (1809–1830) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse. She won four of her eight starts before being retired to stud, where she became a successful...
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Popess or papess (a female pope) may refer to: Pope Joan, mythical female pope The High Priestess, tarot card Stephania (wife of Adrian II) This disambiguation...
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of the Popes Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church Pope Night List of popes who died violently Pope Joan Cadaver Synod According to Catholic ecclesiology...
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Pope John may refer to: Pope John I (523–526) Pope John II (533–535) Pope John III (561–574) Pope John IV (640–642) Pope John V (685–686) Pope John VI...
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Other notable movies that he starred in include Paper Tiger (1975), Pope Joan (1972) and Horror Hospital (1973). The Purple Plain (1954) Windom's Way...
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Papal conclave (redirect from Election of the Pope)
sacred ordination validly." Claims that there was a female pope, including the legendary Pope Joan, are fictitious. The London Magazine printed an image of...
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Sir Trevor Dawson Mary, Queen of Scots (1971) as William Cecil Pope Joan (1972) as Pope Leo Ludwig (1972) as Richard Wagner The Offence (1972) as Detective...
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(2001), Beyond the Sea (2004), Evan Almighty (2007), Speed Racer (2008), Pope Joan (2009), The Artist (2011), Argo (2012), The Hangover Part III (2013),...
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Some sources speculate that it was the precursor to the game of Pope Joan. Look up Pope Julius in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Farquhar, Helen (1916)...
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series of drug offences. His first film appearance was a small part in Pope Joan (1972) and he was a character in The Glittering Prizes (1976), but his...
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Joan of Arc (1412–1431) was formally canonized as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church on 16 May 1920 by Pope Benedict XV in his bull Divina disponente...
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medieval tradition claimed that Pope Joan, a woman disguised as a man, was Benedict's immediate predecessor. The legendary Joan is generally believed to be...
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