Editing Marozia (section)

==Guy of Tuscany==
In order to counter the influence of [[Pope John X]] (whom the hostile chronicler Liutprand of Cremona alleges was another of her lovers), Marozia subsequently married his opponent [[Guy of Tuscany]]. Together they attacked Rome, arrested Pope John X in the [[Lateran Palace|Lateran]], and jailed him in the [[Castel Sant'Angelo]]. Either Guy had him smothered with a pillow in 928 or he simply died, perhaps from neglect or ill treatment. Marozia seized power in Rome in a ''[[coup d'état]]''. The following popes, [[Pope Leo VI|Leo VI]] and [[Pope Stephen VII|Stephen VII]], were both her puppets.{{sfn|Lloyd|1912|page=334}} In 931 she managed to impose her twenty-one-year-old son as pontiff, under the name of [[Pope John XI|John XI]].