Leo provided his legates, one of whom died en route, with a letter addressed to Flavian of Constantinople explaining Rome's position in the controversy.

In 1513, Pope Julius II died and his successor Pope Leo X, of the Medici family, commissioned Michelangelo to reconstruct the façade of the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence and to adorn it with sculptures.

Pius IX died that same year, replaced by a more pragmatic Pope Leo XIII who negotiated away most of the anti-Catholic laws.

Between Leo IV and Benedict III, where Martinus Polonus places her, she cannot be inserted, because Leo IV died 17 July 855, and immediately after his death Benedict III was elected by the clergy and people of Rome ; but, owing to the setting up of an Antipope, in the person of the deposed Cardinal Anastasius, he was not consecrated until 29 September.

Sergius died while negotiating between two patriarchs and was succeeded by Pope Leo IV.

The Eastern Emperor Leo, who died in 474, had appointed the western emperors Anthemius and Julius Nepos, and Constantinople never recognized the new government.

** Leo II of Halych, king of Galicia with his brother Andrew ( both died fighting Mongol-Tatars ) ( possibly Lithuanians )

In the mean-time, Leo I died in January 474 and was succeeded by his grandson, the young Leo, who chose his own father Zeno as co-emperor after a short time.

Pope Leo VIII ( died 1 March 965 ), a Roman by birth, is considered by the Church an Antipope from 963 to 964 and a true Pope from 964 to 965.

Leo died on 17 July 855 and was buried in St. Peter's Basilica.

Pope Leo V ( died c. February 904 ) was pope from July through to September 903 during the period known as the Saeculum obscurum.

Leo died whilst in prison.

Pope Leo VI ( died February 929 ), was pope for a little over seven months, from June 928 through to February 929.

Pope Leo VII ( died 13 July 939 ) was Pope from 3 January 936 until his death in 939.

On 1 April 1605, Alessandro ascended the papal throne with the name Leo XI after his uncle Pope Leo X, being then almost seventy years of age, but was taken ill immediately after his coronation and died within the month.

Having fallen ill with malaria, Pope Leo X died on 1 December 1521, so suddenly that the last sacraments could not be administered ; but the contemporary suspicions of poison were unfounded.

During his absence on this mission, Pope Sixtus III died ( 11 August 440 ), and Leo was unanimously elected by the people to succeed him.

Meetings of Pope Stephen II ( 752-757 ) with Pepin the Short, and of Pope Leo III ( 795-816 ) with Charlemagne ( died 814 ), took place at Reims ; and here Pope Stephen IV crowned Louis the Debonnaire in 816.

When Pope Leo XI died, 1605, Cardinal Borghese became Pope over a number of candidates including Caesar Baronius and Roberto Cardinal Bellarmine ; his neutrality in the factional times made him an ideal compromise candidate.

During the casting process, they had envisioned Trey Wilson ( who played Nathan Arizona in their previous film Raising Arizona ) as gangster boss Leo O ' Bannon, but two days before the first day of principal photography he died from a brain hemorrhage.

On 20 July 1903, Leo XIII died, and at the end of that month the conclave convened to elect his successor.

In the northern hemisphere, Lammas takes place around August 1 with the Sun near the midpoint of Leo in the tropical zodiac, while in the southern hemisphere Lammas is celebrated around February 1 with the Sun near the midpoint of Aquarius.

* February 10 – Pope Leo XII ( b. 1760 )

* February 20 – Pope Leo XIII succeeds Pope Pius IX as the 256th pope.

* February 24 – Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor of Germany ( d. 1899 )

* February 24 – Leo Ornstein, American composer and pianist ( b. 1892 )

* February 7 – Leo I, Thraco-Roman ( or Dacian ) high-ranking officer, becomes new emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire.

* February 9 – Zeno, father of Leo II, is crowned as co-emperor ( Augustus ).

In February 964, after the Emperor withdrew from the city, Leo VIII found it necessary to seek safety in flight, whereupon he was deposed by a synod held under the presidency of the restored John XII.

Leo failed to fully comprehend the importance of the movement, and in February 1518 he directed the vicar-general of the Augustinians to impose silence on his monks.

* February 23 – Leo Aitzema, Dutch historian and statesman ( b. 1600 )

* February 12 – Pope Leo IX succeeds Pope Damasus II as the 152nd pope.

* February 14 – Leo I, Prince of Armenia

The Eastern Catholic Churches as well as the Eastern Orthodox Church celebrate Saint Leo on 18 February.

* St Leo of Rome Orthodox Synaxarion ( 18 February )

Pope Leo XII ( 22 August 1760 – 10 February 1829 ), born Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola Sermattei della Genga, was Pope from 1823 to 1829.

The strip was created by Leo Baxendale under the title When the Bell Rings, and first appeared in The Beano in issue 604, dated 13 February 1954.

Pope Saint Leo IX ( 21 June 1002 – 19 April 1054 ), born Bruno of Egisheim-Dagsburg, was Pope from 12 February 1049 to his death.

Setting out shortly after Christmas, he met with abbot Hugh of Cluny at Besançon, where he was joined by the young monk Hildebrand, who afterwards became Pope Gregory VII ; arriving in pilgrim garb at Rome in the following February, he was received with much cordiality, and at his consecration assumed the name Leo IX.

On the other hand, Leo rewarded both Majorian and Ricimer: the former was appointed magister militum, the latter patricius and magister militum ( February 28, 457 ).

Coin of Leo II ( emperor ) | Leo II, minted in the name of " Leo and Zeno perpetual Augusti "; it belongs to the period when both Zeno and his son were joint emperors, between 9 February and 17 November 474.