# Pope Adrian — Leviathan character guide

> Pope Adrian in Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0003-part-i-of-man

## Who they are

Pope who sent a crown to King John and asserted papal authority.

## In the story

### [Of the Benefit That Proceedeth from Such Darkness, and to Whom It Accrueth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/leviathan_se/chapters/xlvii-of-the-benefit-that-proceedeth-from-such-darkness-and-to-whom-it-accrueth)

Referenced in the example of Emperor Frederick holding the stirrup for him, illustrating the political subservience of sovereigns to the Pope.

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