Antipope Innocent III

Lando of Sezze (also: Landus Sitinus ) was under the name of Innocent III. from 29 September 1179 to January 1180 Anti-Pope to Pope Alexander III. Its Latin name means: the innocent.

Levied under antipope Victor IV cardinal, Innocent III was. the last of the anti-popes during the pontificate of Alexander III.

Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, whose conflict with Alexander III. that had nurtured over twenty years of schism, had the legality of the pontificate of Alexander III. already recognized in the Peace of Venice in 1177, so that the pontificate of Innocent III. little importance. Innocent resided in the southern Italian Palumbara, but it was already taken in 1180 and Alexander III. delivered, which sentenced him to life imprisonment in the monastery of La Cava.

Innocent III. died in detention, day and circumstances of his death are not known.