LANDO di SEZZE, ANTIPAPA. — Of German origin, he was elected to the pontificate in September 1179 by the counts of the Roman Campagna, in opposition to Alessandro III, who had succeeded in obtaining the city. He took the name Innocenzo III and took refuge with the counts of Palombara. But when, at the beginning of 1180, Ugo Pierleoni was sent by Alessandro III to seize the locality, the counts who were sheltering him handed him over in exchange for a sum of money. He was confined to the monastery of Cava, where he ended his days.
BIBL.: F. Gregorovius, Storia della città di Roma, II, Rome 1900, pp. 384–85; P. Brezzi, Roma e l'Impero medievale, Bologna 1947, p. 367. Alberto Ghinato