Word: honorius
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Christendom embroiled in the Fifth Crusade, A.D. 1221, heartening dis patches reached Pope Honorius III : "A new and mighty protector of Christianity has arisen. King David of India. . . has taken the field against the unbelievers." But the Vatican's information proved faulty; "King David" turned out to be Genghis Khan, and his Mongol empire was to spread terror on the flank of Eu rope for the next two centuries...
...south to the Pyrenees. Britain was cut off from Rome-and the Dark Ages were approaching on the double. But these matters were hard to sense fully in misty Britain. All that seemed perfectly clear to some of Felix's bolder friends was that the Emperor Honorius in Rome had suffered a military disgrace-and that the imperial purple beckoned to the strong...
...Stoic. With the financial backing of Felix's father-in-law Gratianus, a young tribune named Marcus Julius Naso hoisted his standard in Britain and took the title of Roman Emperor. Title, of course, was not possession, but it was nice for a start, and Honorius was too far away to dispute it. But when the new "emperor" refused to play ball with Gratianus, the old merchant persuaded Maria to skewer him while...