Editing Pope Adrian V (section)

==Biography==
Ottobuono belonged to a feudal family of Liguria, the [[Fieschi]], counts of [[Lavagna]]. His first clerical position came in 1243, when he was created a papal [[chaplain]]. Subsequently, he received several ecclesiastical [[benefice]]s, becoming [[archdeacon]] in [[Bologna]] (1244) and [[Parma]] (1244/48–1255), [[Canon (priest)|canon]] and chancellor of the cathedral chapter in [[Reims]] (1243–1250), canon and dean of the chapter in [[Piacenza]] (c. 1247) and canon of the [[cathedral chapter]] in [[Paris]] (1244/45–1270). In December 1251, he was created [[Cardinal Deacon]] of San Adriano by his uncle [[Pope Innocent IV]]. He was also [[archpriest]] of the [[Patriarch#Catholic Church|patriarch]]al [[Liberian Basilica]] (attested from 1262).

He was sent to England in 1265 by [[Pope Clement IV]] to mediate between King [[Henry III of England]] and his barons,<ref name=Loughlin>{{CE1913|last=Loughlin |first=James |wstitle=Pope Adrian V |volume=1}}</ref> and to preach the [[Crusades]]. Fieschi was related distantly, by affinity, to Henry III; his sister had married [[Thomas II of Savoy]], who was a cousin of Henry's wife, [[Eleanor of Provence]].<ref>Howell, Margaret (1998). "Eleanor of Provence: Queenship in 13th Century England", p.&nbsp;154. Blackwell Publishing, Malden Massachusetts. {{ISBN|0-631-17286-6}}</ref>

He remained in England for several years as the [[papal legate]], serving from October 1265 to July 1268. His diplomatic position was such that his name is still on the oldest extant piece of [[English law|English]] [[statute law]], the [[Statute of Marlborough]] of 1267, where the formal title mentions as a witness "the Lord Ottobon, at that time legate in England". (Also on this legation was a young diplomat, the future [[Pope Boniface VIII|Boniface VIII]].) In April 1268 he issued a set of [[canon law|canons]], which formed the basis of church law in England until the [[Protestant Reformation]] of the sixteenth century.

Under the influence of [[Charles I of Anjou]], he was [[Papal conclave, July 1276|elected pope]] to succeed [[Innocent V]] on 11 July 1276 but died at [[Viterbo]] on 18 August 1276 from illness without ever having been [[ordination|ordained]] to the [[priest]]hood.<ref>{{EB1911|inline=1|wstitle=Adrian (popes) |display=Adrian |volume=1 |page=216}}</ref> He is buried there in the church of [[San Francesco alla Rocca]]. His funeral monument is attributed to [[Arnolfo di Cambio]]. Adrian V was the third pope in the "[[Year of Four Popes]]" of 1276.

He annulled [[Pope Gregory X]]'s [[Papal bull|bull]] on the holding of [[papal conclave]]s, but died before enacting new regulations.<ref name=Loughlin/>