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.
1957, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
10 January 1975, Bottrop, Germany
30 October 1977, East-Berlin, German Democratic Republic
18 August 1972, Kassel, Germany
23 December 1948, Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
April2000
6 June 1984, Jena, Thuringia, Germany
21 September 1965, Marrickville, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
23 December 1970, Zurich, Switzerland
3 June 1949
20 June 1944, London, England, UK
19 October 1958, Munich, Germany
11 January 1970, Vacha, Thuringia, Germany
20 April 1948, Schleswig, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
1951 in Geithain, Saxony, Germany
1982
14 January 1994
1974, Marbach am Neckar, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
11 November 1980, Herdecke, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
1991
4 February 1969, Dresden, German Democratic Republic
22 December 1991
2 December 1991, Copenhagen, Denmark
17 August 1970, London, England, UK
27 October 1966, Kiel, Germany
14 December 1961, Ratingen, Germany
