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  Pope Honorius III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Under Pope Clement III (1187–91) and Pope Celestine III (1191–98) he was treasurer of the Roman Church.
Cardinals Ugolino of Ostia (afterwards Pope Gregory IX) and Guido of Praeneste were empowered to appoint the new Pope.
Honorius III wrote also a life of Celestine III; a life of Gregory VII; an "Ordo Romanus", which is a sort of ceremonial containing the rites of the Church for various occasions; and thirty-four sermons.
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 Pope Celestine III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was born into the noble Bobones family (ancestors of the Orsini family), though he was only a deacon before becoming Pope.
He received priest's orders on April 13, 1191 ruled the church six years, nine months, and nine days (though believed to have been about eighty five when elected), died January 8, 1198, and was buried at the Lateran.
This biography of a Pope or a claimant to the papacy is a stub.
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 Wikinfo | Pope Innocent III   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Celestine III died in 1198 from complications of syphilis.
The pope made use of the weakness of Frederick II (who was four) to reassert papal power in Sicily, and acknowledged Frederick II as king only after the surrender of the privileges of the Four Chapters, which William I of Sicily had previously extorted from Pope Adrian IV.
This decree was afterwards embodied in the Corpus Juris Canonici.
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 Pope Celestine III
In spite of the pope the emperor proceeded southward to make good his claims to Sicily, but was defeated and compelled to retire, leaving the empress a prisoner of Tancred, who freed her at the papal petition.
The aged Celestine astonished many by his longanimity in dealing with the young and violent Henry VI who in Germany surpassed his predecessors in cruelty and oppression of the churches.
A serious crusade was the constant ideal of Pope Celestine; he confirmed the new military Order of Teutonic Knights (1191), and favoured greatly the Knights Templar and the Hospitallers.
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 Pope Celestine I - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Saint Celestine I was pope from 422 to 432.
The first notice, however, concerning him that is known is in a document of Pope Innocent I, in the year 416, where he is spoken of as Celestine the Deacon.
Celestine raged against the Novatians in Rome, imprisoning their bishop, and forbidding their worship.
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 pope innocent iii   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Pope Innocent III made use of the weakness of Frederick II (who was four) to reassert papal power in Sicily, and acknowledged Frederick II as king only after the surrender of the privileges of the Four Chapters, which William I of Sicily had previously extorted from Pope Adrian IV.
Pope Innocent III called for the Fourth Crusade in 1198, directing the call towards the knights and nobles of Europe, rather than the kings (he preferred that neither Richard I of England and Philip II of France, who were still engaged in war, nor his German enemies, participate).
Pope Innocent III excommunicated the Venetians in return, and although he was not pleased with the means by which it was done, he accepted the end result of the temporary reunification of the Catholic and Orthodox churches after the Great Schism of 1054.
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 Pope Innocent III
Innocent III, birth name Lotario de' Conti di Segni, Roman Catholic Pope from 1198 to 1216, was the son of Trasimondo, count of Segni, and of Claricia, a Roman lady of the noble family of Scotti, and was born at Anagni about 1160.
The election of Pope Celestine III in the following year withdrew Lotario for a while from the active work of the Curia, the new pope belonging to the family of the Orsini, who were at feud with the Scotti.
Innocent III is one of the greatest historical figures, both in the grandeur of his aims and the force of character which brought him so near to their realization.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Innocent III
One of the greatest popes of the Middle Ages, son of Count Trasimund of Segni and nephew of Clement III, born 1160 or 1161 at Anagni, and died 16 June, 1216, at Perugia.
During the pontificate of Celestine III (1191-1198), a member of the House of the Orsini, enemies of the counts of Segni, he lived in retirement, probably at Anagni, devoting himself chiefly to meditation and literary pursuits.
The pope now began to treat with King Philip Augustus of France and with the German princes, with the result that most princes renounced the excommunicated emperor and elected in his place the youthful Frederick II of Sicily, at the Diet of Nuremberg in September, 1211.
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 Pope Celestine III
Celestine III, born Giacinto Bobon, Roman Catholic Pope from 1191 to 1198, was cardinal deacon of Santa Maria in Cosmedin as early as 1144, and had reached the age of eighty-five when chosen on the 30th of March 1191 to succeed Pope Clement III.
The first pope of the house of the Orsini, his policy was marked by mildness and indecision.
It was Celestine's purpose to lay England under the interdict; but Prince John and the barons still refused to recognize the papal legate, the bishop of Ely.
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 Encyclopedia: Pope Celestine III   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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The Pope is the Catholic Bishop and patriarch of Rome, and head of the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Catholic Churches.
Pope Celestine came to the rescue and by a threat of excommunication forced King Tancred to release the lady.
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 Pope Celestine III - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
He was born into the noble Bobones family (ancestors of the Orsini family), and was elected Pope on March 30, 1191, being then only a deacon.
He received priest's orders on April 13, ruled the church six years, nine months, and nine days (though believed to have been about eightyfive when elected), died January 8, 1198, and was buried at the Lateran.
Pope Celestine III, Popes, 1106 births, 1198 deaths and Natives of Rome.
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 Pope Celestine III
Celestine III was Pope from 1191 to 1198.
He was born Giacinto Bobone Orsini, of that noble family, and was elected Pope on 30th March 1191, being then only a deacon.
He received priest's orders on the 13th of April, ruled the church six years, nine months, and nine days (though believed to have been ninety when elected), died 8th January 1198, and was buried at the Lateran[?].
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 January 27: HISTORY (jan27his.htm)
Celestine served seven years on the papal throne, dying at 94 years young, one of the oldest pontiffs ever to assume the chair of Peter.
Celestine again, both because he was powerless and he was a man of peace, declined to do anything but pray.
Celestine, in his old age was a wise man equal to Henry's cunning and he used delay tactics to stall Henry and the baptism, telling him once the crusade was formed he would fulfill the emperor's request.
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 Cyprus History: Lusignan Period - The Reign of Amaury
On the application of the king the Pope, Celestine III, sent two commissioners to Cyprus with the object of introducing a Roman hierarchy and for the conversion of the Orthodox Cypriots to the Roman communion.
First, the old crusading grudge against the Eastern Empire owing to the mistaken policy of the Emperors, who regarded whole of the Levant as their lost provinces to be restored as soon as conquered, a policy which led the Empire to give niggardly aid or to pursue obstructive tactics in the crusades.
By July 1203 Constantinople was reached, Alexios III was in flight, and Isaac Angelos restored to the throne.
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 Chapter 5: The Episcopate in the Kingdom of León in the Twelfth Century
At Lateran III, in 1179, the archbishop of Santiago de Compostela was present, with two of his suffragans, Sancho of Avila and Pedro of Ciudad Rodrigo; from the province of Braga, Bishop Juan of Lugo and apparently Guillermo of Zamora attended.
Celestine III sent his nephew Cardinal Gregory in the 1190s with the difficult and delicate task of bringing about peace between the warring kings of Christian Spain.
Cardinal Hyacinth, aged nearly ninety, ascended the papal throne as Celestine III at the end of March 1191, and among the earliest letters he despatched was one to the archbishop of Toledo scolding him for his feeble response to Clement's scheme for peace and urging him to greater efforts.
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 Europe's 13th-Century Progress by Sanderson Beck
Pope Boniface himself was under attack in Rome by the Colonna family, and in July 1297 his bull Etsi de statu allowed the King to ask for subsidies from the clergy without his consent; the Pope also pleased Philip by canonizing his grandfather Louis IX.
The Pope's crusade against Aragon led by France's King Philip III was defeated by Aragonese and Catalan forces and the navy led by de Lauria; after an epidemic the retreating French troops were slaughtered.
The new Pope Urban IV issued a bull favoring Henry in 1262, and Henry announced that the charters of liberties would be enforced but that the ordinances and statutes had been annulled by the Pope; anyone opposing his royal right could be arrested.
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 Innocent III. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
He was trained as a theologian and perhaps as a jurist, and under Celestine III (his uncle) he became (1190) a cardinal.
In Germany the dispute between Philip of Swabia and Otto IV was arbitrated by the pope in favor of Otto (1201).
Innocent set aside the two rival claimants and procured the election of Stephen Langton; King John, enraged at what he felt was unwarrantable interference by the pope and at the obduracy of the clergy in opposing the demands of the king, persecuted the church.
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 Keeping Catholics Catholic Page XXV-The Timeline-The Twelfth Century   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It was led by Conrad III of Germany, Louis VII of France, and Baldwin III of Flanders.
Pope Urban III rejected Emperor Frederick’s candidate for the Bishopric of Trier, and appointed his rival, Folmer.
Pope Urban III appointed Philip, the influential Archbishop of Cologne and Leader of the opposition to Frederick in Germany, as his legate.
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 CELESTINE III
The Pope was less successful in his attempt to protect Richard the Lion- Hearted from Henry.
The Pope should have acted most strenuously against this gross violation of a crusader's rights, and Richard's old mother, the fiery Eleanor of Aquitaine, told the Pope so in spirited if respectful pleas.
Celestine acted vigorously to protect the sanctity of the marriage bond when Philip II of France tried to repudiate his Danish wife, Ingeborg.
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 HONORIUS III
He was consecrated as Honorius III on July 24,1216, at Perugia and was crowned at Rome on August 61.
This fiasco was a cruel blow to Honorius, but to the end of his life the gallant old Pope continued to work for a new crusade.
One of this kind pope's last acts was to help the Roman people during a famine.
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 Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of November 21
Albert, son of Duke Godfrey III of Brabant and his wife Margaret of Limburg, was raised for a life in the Church in a castle on what is now called Mont-César.
Following Pope Celestine III's confirmation of the election, Albert returned to Liège, but found Lothaire already intruded in the see and that Archbishop Bruno of Cologne was unwilling to incur the wrath of the emperor by consecrating Albert.
Saint Simplicius), and as a pope he still liked to dash off letters in his own hand--many of which still exist.
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 The Fourth Lateran Council - Dr. Herb Samworth
To understand the importance of this council, it is necessary to note the conditions under which it met, the person who called it, the decrees of the council, and their results.
Upon the death of his Celestine III, he was elected Pope and chose the name of Innocent III.
Innocent III came to the Papal chair with the determination to rid the church of heresy, recover the Holy Land from the infidels, and put the church on a more spiritual basis.
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Celestine's Letter to the Synod; Continuation of Session II; Session III; The Canons, with the Ancient Epitome; A Letter from the Synod to the Synod in Pamphylia; The Letter of the Synod to Pope Celestine; The Definition against the Messalians.
And we are in communion with all those laymen and clergymen cast out or deposed by your holiness on account of the faith; for it is not right that those, who resolved to believe rightly, should suffer by your choice; for they do well in opposing you.
The holy and most blessed pope Coelestine, according to due order, is his successor and holds his place, and us he sent to supply his place m this holy synod, which the most humane and Christian Emperors have commanded to assemble, bearing in mind and continually watching over the Catholic faith.
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 Worldroots.com
However, this solution was not accepted by Ingeborg's brother, the Danish king, who appealed to Pope Celestine III, claiming the genealogies to be wrong, but the pope gave Philippe no more than a warning.
In 1205 a 'damsel from Arras' bore him a bastard son and, as Philippe would have nothing to do with Ingeborg, she was spared the perils of childbearing.
To satisfy pope, king and queen, the only solution seemed to be that the queen should take the veil and enter a convent; but then, in April 1213, Philippe announced he was taking back his wife.
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 pp21/24- Manx Soc vol 7 'Monumenta de Insula Manniae - Vol 2'
From Manx Soc vol IV,VII and IX Bull of Pope Celestine III to Furness Abbey, 1194
A.D. CELESTINE, bishop, servant of the servants of God, to his beloved sons the abbot of Furness, and all his brethren of the Cistercian order serving God, greeting and apostolic benediction.
The holy Roman church is wont, from a sense of assured piety, to love more sincerely those devoted and humble sons, and, like a pious mother, is accustomed to cherish those, by the safeguard of her protection, whom she knows to be more devoted to the Roman church, and to cleave to her divine obsequies.
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 Celestine III --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Had he succeeded in a complete reformation of the church, it is possible that the Reformation of the 16th century might have been avoided, or at least forestalled.
William H. Gray, III, was born on Aug. 20, 1941, in Baton Rouge, La. He graduated from college in 1963 and became a Baptist minister.
As a minister he was associated with Baptist churches in Philadelphia, Pa., and Montclair, N.J., and he succeeded his father and grandfather as pastor of the Bright Hope Baptist Church in...
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 July 24: Pope Honorius III Consecrated
He appointed worthy legates to oversee the minority of Henry III of England and kept France from warring on the island nation.
Innocent III had begun the process of suppressing these heretics and Honorius continued it.
A man of erudition, he penned biographies of popes Celestine III and Gregory VII and a number of other works of historical interest.
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