Pope Joan
German village Igelheims backward priest hopes his sons to succeed him after education in the cathedral school of bishop, but the elder succumbs to disease and the youngest lacks any intellectual drive. Traveling teacher Aesculapius arranges for the inquisitive daughter Johanna to be enrolled too, against wishes of their father. Unfit for the boys-only dorm, she gets to stay with count Gerold, incurring due jealousy of his wife. She has to be dismissed, but survives a Viking pillaging slaughter and assumes brother Johannes';s identity to join a monastery, where she becomes a trainee of the infirmary. Fleeing exposure as female, she arrives in Rome. As a protégée of rivals in the viper nest-like papal court, she ends up elected as pope, but carries count Gerolds baby, guaranteeing exposure.
20 June 1944, London, England, UK
30 November 1949, England, UK
19 October 1958, Munich, Germany
5 October 1969, Turin, Italy
2 September 1996, Berlin, Germany
13 June 1990, Germany
7 August 1951, Hammersmith, London, England, UK
27 October 1966, Kiel, Germany
11 November 1980, Herdecke, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
18 August 1972, Kassel, Germany
17 August 1970, London, England, UK
1969, Berlin, Germany
20 April 1948, Schleswig, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
14 December 1961, Ratingen, Germany
23 December 1948, Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
24 June 1961, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
1974, Marbach am Neckar, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
14 January 1994
3 August 1936, West Bowling, Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
1950, Weimar, Germany
1959
2 December 1991, Copenhagen, Denmark
21 September 1965, Marrickville, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
11 January 1970, Vacha, Thuringia, Germany
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