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I'm enquiring on behalf of a Renaissance art-historian colleague: he is trying tofind anything about an apparently royal figure included among the socle figures of "Benefactors of Christianity" in the Stanza dell'Incendio i nthe Vatican: together with Constantine, Charlemagne, Godfrey of Bouillon, Emperor Lothar, and Ferdinand the Catholic, is one "Aliduph of England": the names are inscribed. (His reference is Joachim W. Jacoby, Den Papsten zu Diensten. Raffaels Herrscherzyklus in der Stanza dell' Incendio im vatikanischen Palast, Ph.D. Disservation, Hildesheim, 1987). We have checked out such lines as the English royal presence at Whitby, when England became the supporter of papal authority in Europe, as opposed to the Mediterranean, i.e. Oswy; and also the documented 8th-century royal founder of Sto. Spirito in Sassia, the Anglo-Saxon (specificaly West-Saxon) hostel/hospital for A/S pilgrims to Rome (Ini). Difficult to see how even Renaissance transmogrifications of early medieval orthography could change either of those into "Adiluph": any suggestions as to who this benevolent character may have been? Thanks in advance, Elizabeth Parker McLachlan, Art History, Rutgers University [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%