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And that's not all: her son Henry became bishop of Winchester and a
cardinal...

Henk

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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] Namens Christopher Crockett
Verzonden: vrijdag 25 februari 2011 14:51
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Onderwerp: Re: [M-R] Feasts and Saints of the Day - Feb 24

medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture

From: John Briggs <[log in to unmask]>

> The last time I commented here disapprovingly about one of the Borgias
being
made a saint I got my head bitten off...
 
> Headless John Briggs


well, Dog Nose, she had her faults, but Adela of Blois never lost her
Amateur
Standing like those Borgia guys did.

one of them even made Pope, didn't he?

even Francis Ford Coppola has one of his Godfathers say, "We don't live in
the
time of the Borgias" --as though the '50s in the U.S. was some sort of
improvement.

true, one of Adela's grandsons did make Archbishop of Sens and then of
Reims,
but that's not quite in the same League.

c

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