He was succeeded by Pope Honorius II.

Pope Martin V, who while still Cardinal Otto of Colonna, had attacked Huss with relentless severity, energetically resumed the battle against Huss's teaching after the enactments of the Council of Constance, seeking to eradicate completely the doctrine of Huss, for which purpose the co-operation of King Wenceslaus had to be obtained ; in 1418, Sigismund succeeded in winning his brother over to the standpoint of the council by pointing out the inevitability of a religious war if the heretics in Bohemia found further protection.

In 816, Pope Stephen IV, who had succeeded Leo III, visited Reims and again crowned Louis.

He died in 1667, was memorialised in a spectacular tomb by Bernini, and was succeeded by Pope Clement IX ( 1667 – 69 ).

The ambassador of Louis XIV of France ( 1643 – 1715 ) succeeded in procuring his election on 6 October 1689, as successor to Pope Innocent XI ( 1676 – 89 ); nevertheless, after months of negotiation Alexander VIII finally condemned the declaration made in 1682 by the French clergy concerning the liberties of the Gallican church.

Though much of John XXI's brief papacy was dominated by the powerful Cardinal Giovanni Gaetano Orsini ( who succeeded him as Pope Nicholas III ), John attempted to launch a crusade for the Holy Land, pushed for a union with the Eastern church, and did what he could to maintain peace between the Christian nations.

Pope Anastasius IV died on 3 December 1154 and was succeeded by Cardinal Nicholas of Albano as Pope Adrian IV.

Damasus is known to have been raised in the service of the Basilica of Saint Lawrence outside the Walls in Rome, and following the death of Pope Liberius, he succeeded to the papacy amidst factional violence.

Pope Marcellus I, serving as pope from May or June 308 to 309, succeeded Pope Marcellinus after a considerable interval.

He died the same year, being succeeded by Pope Eusebius.

Born in Treviso, he succeeded Pope Boniface VIII, but was unable to carry out his policies.

Fournier succeeded Pope John XXII as Pope in 1334, being elected on the first ballot of the papal conclave.

Boniface V was a Neapolitan who succeeded Pope Adeodatus I after a vacancy of more than a year.

He expired two days afterwards, on 14 August 1464, and was succeeded by Pope Paul II.

He was succeeded by Pope Gregory XIII ( 1572 – 85 ).

Shortly after his accession at the conclusion of the papal election of December 1187, Clement succeeded in allaying the conflict which had existed for half a century between the Popes and the citizens of Rome, with an agreement by which the citizens were allowed to elect their magistrates, while the nomination of the governor of the city remained in the hands of the Pope.

He succeeded as Pope on 23 November 1700.

Unsuccessful at stopping the Lombard advance, Gregory III died on 28 November 741, and was succeeded by Pope Zachary.

He was succeeded by Pope Sergius II.

Gregory V succeeded Pope John XV when only twenty-four years of age.

Gregory VI was succeeded in the papacy by the German bishop of Bamberg, Suidger, who took the name Pope Clement II.

He was succeeded by Pope Clement III.

He was succeeded by Adrian I.

By the time Adrian Boult succeeded Pitt as director of music for the BBC, the violinist Albert Sammons and the violist Lionel Tertis had gone round the country talent-spotting on behalf of the corporation.

The incumbent Governor is Vice Admiral Sir Adrian Johns KCB, CBE, ADC, who succeeded his predecessor Lieutenant General Sir Robert Fulton KBE on 26 October 2009

Adrian was succeeded by his friend and training partner Mike Collins in 2002.

In 766 Æthelbert succeeded Ecgbert as archbishop ; he was consecrated 24 April 767, and received his pallium from Pope Adrian I in 773.

Head coach Tim Stowers succeeded Russell and won the 1990 national title, while Paul Johnson added two more in 1999 and 2000 with teams led by all-time Division I rushing leader Adrian Peterson.

The band's original members were Martyn Jacques on vocals, accordion, piano and ukulele, Adrian Huge on drums, percussion and toys and Phil Butcher on double bass, who was succeeded in 1995 by Adrian Stout who also plays the theremin and musical saw.

It was commanded by British General Adrian Carton De Wiart ( who succeeded General Louis Botha ).

He was succeeded by his deputy Adrian Kloeden, and continued as a consultant to the company until after the hosting of ICANN ’ s meeting in Melbourne in March 2001.

Adrian Kloeden was succeeded as CEO by Theo Hnarakis in November 2002.

He was succeeded by Adrian de Castello ( 1504-18 ) who was an absentee bishop, under whom the see was administered by Polydore Vergil the noted historian.

Simmons succeeded Adrian Birrell as coach of the Ireland national cricket team after the 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup.

Willem Adriaan, after being magistrate of Amsterdam, succeeded his father as Governor of the Cape ; Frans " de jonker " became a farmer at the Cape ; Adrian became governor of Amboina ( 1706 – 1720 ); Cornelis was one of the 352 shipwrecked in the Ridderschap in 1694.

He succeeded his father Mehmed III ( 1595 – 1603 ) in 1603 at age 13.

Forced against his will into war with Russia, Ahmed III came nearer than any Ottoman sovereign before or since to breaking the power of his northern rival, whose armies his grand vizier Nevşehirli Damat İbrahim Pasha succeeded in completely surrounding at the Pruth River Campaign in 1711.

Aga Khan III was succeeded as Aga Khan by his grandson Karim Aga Khan, who is the present Imam of the Ismaili Muslims.

He was succeeded by his son Archidamus III.

His only legitimate child and son, by his second wife, Alexander III succeeded him as King of Scots.

Amalric was the second son of Melisende of Jerusalem and Fulk of Jerusalem, and succeeded his older brother Baldwin III.

* 1080 – King of Denmark Harald III dies and is succeeded by Canute IV, who would later be the first Dane to be canonized.

He was the son of sultan Ahmed III ( 1703 – 30 ) and succeeded his brother Mustafa III ( 1757 – 74 ) on January 21, 1774.

Set in 1485 at the end of the British Middle Ages, the series is written as a secret history which contends that King Richard III won the Battle of Bosworth Field, only to be mistaken for someone else and murdered, and is succeeded by Richard IV ( Brian Blessed ), one of the Princes in the Tower.

After his death he was succeeded by his son Frederick III who was only emperor for 99 days.

In 1535 Christian II, the deposed monarch, tried to regain power from King Christian III who just succeeded his father Frederick I.

* 1594 – Having already inherited the throne of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth through his mother Catherine Jagellonica of Poland in 1587, Sigismund III of the House of Vasa is crowned King of Sweden, having succeeded his father John III of Sweden in 1592.

His son Frederick III, the hope of German liberals, succeeded him, but was already stricken with throat cancer and died three months later.

Their son, Otto III, focused his attention on Italy and Rome and employed widespread diplomacy but died young in 1002, to be succeeded by his cousin Henry II, who focused on Germany.

Philip II died in 1598, and was succeeded by his son Philip III.

Philip III was succeeded in 1621 by his son Philip IV of Spain ( reigned 1621 – 1665 ).

When Malcolm died in 1093, his brother Domnall III ( Donald III ) succeeded him.

Conrad's brother Duke Frederick II died in 1147, and was succeeded in Swabia by his son, Duke Frederick III.

When King Conrad III died without adult heir in 1152, Frederick also succeeded him, taking both German royal and Imperial titles.

Although George III refused to purchase the work, West succeeded both in overcoming his critics ' objections and inaugurating a more historically accurate style in such paintings.

The next year Henry's ally Władysław III Spindleshanks succeeded Leszek I as High Duke ; however as he was still contested by his nephew in Greater Poland, he made Henry his governor at Kraków, whereby the Silesian duke once again became entangled into the dispute over the Seniorate Province.

Hugh of Antioch-Lusignan won the dispute and succeeded Hugh II on Cyprus as Hugh III.