Calixtus
the name popes:
CALIXTUS I., Roman bishop in 217; succeeded Zephyrinus in 219; suffered martyrdom in 223.
CALIXTUS II., son of Count William of Burgundy, archbishop of Vienna, and papal legate in France; was elected in 1119 in the monastery of Clugny, successor of the expelled pope, Gelasius II. He made his entrance into Italy in 1120, and, with great pomp, into Rome itself; took Gregory VIII. prisoner in 1121 by the aid of the Normans, and availed himself of the troubles of the emperor to force him, in 1122, to agree to the Concordat of Worms. He died in 1124. CALIXTUS III., the title under which Alfonso Borgia, a Spanish nobleman and CALIXTUS III., the title under which counsellor of Alfonso, king of Aragon and the Sicilies, was made pope in 1455. In order to appease the displeasure ocgs of the councasioned by the proceedings Basel, he insticils of Constance and Basel, gated a crusade against the Turks. He died in 1458.