Pope Stephen V
Stephen V,
Pope from June
816-January
817, succeeded
Leo III, whose policy he continued. Immediately after his consecration he ordered the
Roman people to swear fidelity to the
Frankish king
Louis the Pious, to whom he found it prudent to betake himself personally in the following August. After the coronation of Louis at
Reims in October, he returned to Rome, where he died in the beginning of the following year. His successor was
Pope Paschal I
There is a problem in numbering the Popes Stephen -- see Pope Stephen II for the explanation.
from the 9th edition (1887) of an unnamed encyclopedia.