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A medieval artistic rendition of Pope Joan with a papal tiara.
Illustrated Manuscript.
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, circa 1560's.
The earliest mention of the female pope appears in the Dominican Jean de Mailly's chronicle of Metz, Chronica Universalis Mettensis, written in the early 13th century.
In his telling, the female pope is not named, and the events are set in 1099.
According to Jean:
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