ANASTASIUS IV. was pope from I 1 S3 to I 154. He was a Roman named Conrad, son of Benedictus, and at the time of his election, on July 9 11J3, was cardinal bishop of Sabina. He had taken part in the double election of 1130, had been one of the most deter mined opponents of Anacletus II. and when Innocent II. fled to France had been left behind as his vicar in Italy. During his short pontificate, however, he played the part of peacemaker; he came to terms with the emperor Frederick I. in the vexed question of the appointment to the see of Magdeburg and closed the long quarrel, which had raged through four pontificates, about the appointment of William Fitzherbert (d. I154)-commonly known as St. William of York-to the see of York, by sending him the pallium in spite of the continued opposition of the powerful Cis tercian order. Anastasius died Dec. 3 11 S4, and was succeeded by Cardinal Nicholas of Albano (Nicholas Breakspear) as Adrian IV.