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.
11 November 1980, Herdecke, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
22 December 1991
22 April 1966, Heiligenwald, Germany
1951 in Geithain, Saxony, Germany
14 January 1994
2 September 1996, Berlin, Germany
1982
20 June 1952, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
24 June 1961, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
3 June 1949
6 June 1984, Jena, Thuringia, Germany
1969, Berlin, Germany
1991
5 October 1969, Turin, Italy
13 June 1990, Germany
1957, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
3 February 1977, Bremen, Germany
1959
14 December 1961, Ratingen, Germany
2 December 1991, Copenhagen, Denmark
3 March 1975, Freiburg, Germany
27 October 1966, Kiel, Germany
August 24, 1997 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany
17 August 1970, London, England, UK
10 October 1975, Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]
3 August 1936, West Bowling, Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
