Pope Gregory IV was Pope from October 827 to 25 January 844. His pontificate was notable for the papacy’s attempts to intervene in the quarrels between the emperor Louis the Pious and his sons. It also saw the breakup of the Carolingian Empire in 843.
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A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air
In his own ground:”
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