According to the Liber pontificalis, Lando, who…
March 914 CE
According to the Liber pontificalis, Lando, who had succeeded Pope Anastasius III in 913, was born in the Sabina and his father was named Taino.
The Liber also claims that his pontificate only lasted four months and twenty-two days.
A different list of popes, appended to a continuation of the Liber pontificalis at the Abbey of Farfa was quoted by Gregory of Catino in his Chronicon Farfense in the twelfth century.
It gives Lando a pontificate of six months and twenty-six days.
This is closer to the duration recorded by Flodoard of Reims of six months and ten days.
The end of his pontificate can be dated to between February 5, 914, when he is mentioned in a document of Ravenna, and late March or early April, when his successor, John X, is elected.
Lando is thought to have been a candidate of Theophylact I, Count of Tusculum, the powerful man in Rome.
His family controls papal finances through their monopoly of the office of vestararius, and also controls the Roman militia and Senate.
During his reign, Arab raiders destroy the cathedral of Vescovio in Sabina.
No document of Lando's chancery has survived.
The only act of his reign that is recorded is a donation to his native diocese mentioned in a judicial act of 1431.
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