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  • An example of what good dry Furmint can do.www. patricius.hu Oremus, Mandolas, Tokjaji Furmint, 2004

    Beyond Sweet 2009

  • This synod opened a period of about a hundred years when the papacy was dominated by the German emperors and by the counts of Tusculum, vassals of the emperors, who had the title of patricius in Rome.

    f. The Papacy and Italy 2001

  • The eastern emperor Zeno apparently recognized Odovacar as “patrician” (patricius had become the title of honor for barbarian commanders).

    e. The Later Fifth Century 2001

  • Otto III, on his first expedition to Italy, deposed the patricius Crescentius II and (at the request of the Roman people) nominated as pope his cousin Bruno, Gregory V (996–99), the first German pope, an ardent Cluniac.

    983 2001

  • These last were the elected representatives of the plebs, that vast bulk of the Roman citizen body unable to claim the high distinction of being a patricius, a patrician.

    The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990

  • Ila ille patricius ex gente clarissima Corneliorum, qui consulare imperium Romae habuerat, [316] dignum moribus factisque suis exitium vitae invenit.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • The patricius himself died in the spring of the year 1012, and with him the Crescentii disappeared from the history of Rome.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

  • John Crescentius, son of the patricius whom Otto III had defeated and put to death, seized the authority for himself.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • After the death of the last patricius of the House of Crescentius, the counts of Tusculum seized the authority in Rome, a scion of this family was raised to the papal throne as

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • When Strabo died in 481, Theodoric the Great received from the Emperor Zeno the titles of patricius and magister militum and in 484 was appointed consul.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

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