A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Marozia
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MAROZIA, a Lady of Rank, Concubine to Pope Sergius III. famous for her Licentiousness, Intrigues, and Politics.
She procured John X. to be deposed, Leo VI. to be put to death in prison, and in 931 placed on the pontifical throne John IX. whom she had by Sergius III. Marozia had been successively wife to Adalbert and his son Guy; and when the latter died, Hugh, king of Italy and Provence, Guy's brother-in-law, married her, that he might be master of the castle of Rome.
L'Advocat's Biog.