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  Pope Innocent IV - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pope Innocent IV (Genoa, 1180/90 – Naples, December 7, 1254), born Sinibaldo de Fieschi, Pope from 1243 to 1254, belonged to the feudal nobility of Liguria, the Fieschi, counts of Lavagna.
He had for his immediate predecessor Pope Celestine IV (1241), who however, was Pope for eighteen days only, and therefore the events of Innocent IV's pontificate practically link themselves on to those of the reign of Pope Gregory IX (1227–41).
It was on a sick bed at Naples that Innocent IV heard of Manfred's victory at Foggia, and the tidings are said to have precipitated his death on December 7, 1254.
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 Wikipedia: Pope Innocent IV
Innocent IV, Sinibaldo de Fieschi, pope from 1243 to 1254, belonged to one of the first families of Genoa, and, educated at Parma and Bologna, passed for one of the best canonists of his time.
He had for his immediate predecessor Celestine IV, who however, was pope for eighteen days only, and therefore the events of Innocent's pontificate practically link themselves on to those of the reign of Gregory IX.
It was on a sick bed at Naples that Innocent heard of Manfred's victory at Foggia, and the tidings are said to have precipitated his death (December 7, 1254).
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 Pope Alexander IV - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He succeeded Innocent IV as guardian of Conradin, the last of the Hohenstaufen, promising him his benevolent protection; but in less than a fortnight he conspired against him and bitterly opposed Conradin's uncle Manfred.
Alexander IV fulminated with excommunication and interdict against the party of Manfred, but in vain; nor could he enlist the Kings of England and Norway in a crusade against the Hohenstaufen.
This biography of a Pope or a claimant to the papacy is a stub.
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 Pope Innocent IV
When Celestine IV died after a short reign of sixteen days, the excommunicated emperor, Frederick II, was in possession of the States of the Church around Rome and attempted to intimidate the cardinals into electing a pope to his own liking.
In 1249 the pope ordered a crusade to be preached against Frederick II, and after the emperor's death (13 December, 1250), he continued the struggle against Conrad IV and Manfred with unrelenting severity.
The registers of Innocent IV were edited by Elie Berger in four volumes (Paris, 1881-98) and his letters, 762 in number, by Rodenberg in "Mon.
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 Pope Innocent IV
On the 17th of July Innocent formally renewed the sentence of excommunication on the emperor, and declared him deposed from the imperial throne and that of Naples.
Innocent, determined that the Hohenstaufen should not again dominate Italy, offered the crown of Sicily in turn to Richard of Cornwall, Charles of Anjou, and King Henry III of England, the last of whom accepted the doubtful gift for his son Edmund.
Innocent IV is comparable to his greater predecessor Innocent III.
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Pope Adrian V (1276) was Sinibaldo's nephew and had exercised much influence in the Roman curia before he became pope (Cardinal Ottobono Fieschi).
Finally Pope Urban IV (1261-1264) granted the crown to the brother of Louis IX of France, Charles of Anjou.
He concluded that the pope had the same authority since he held the office of the vicar of Christ, and it would be absurd if after the death of St. Peter human beings were left without the governance of one person (regimen unius personae).
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 Chronology of the Middle Ages in Europe
Pope Nicholas III died and was succeeded by Pope Martin IV, who ascended the papal throne in 1281.
The new pope remained in France, fearing to expose himself to the whims of the powerful clans ruling the city of Rome and because he did not want to be at the mercy of the Roman popular classes.
After the death of Pope Clemens VI, the cardinals tried to usurp all power in the Church but the newly elected pope, Innocent VI was able to block this effort.
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 New Catholic Dictionary: Innocent IV, Pope   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Pope Innocent IV Pope from 1243 to 1254.
The Council deposed Frederick, and the pope made an attempt to secure the election of a candidate of his own.
Innocent is the author of a commentary on the decretals of Pope Gregory IX.
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 Historical Documents of the Franciscan Orders
Pope Innocent IV to the Abbess and sisters of St. Clare of the Monastery of St. Elisabeth at Brescia, regarding their observances and granting other privileges.
Pope Alexander IV disapproving certain points of the agreement between the Bishop of Assisi and of the Poor Clares of the Monastery of San Damiano, regarding their request to be transferred to San Giorgio, next to the tomb of St.
Pope Alexander IV to the Abbess and sisters of the Monastery of San Damiano and Santa Chiara, Assisi, confirming the translation of their Monastery to the Church of San Giorgio.
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 A heretic's view of John Paul II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Pope Pontian is sent to Sardinia, "the island of death," during a crackdown on Christianity by the Roman Empire.
Pope Innocent IV decrees torture an acceptable way of extracting confessions from purported heretics during the Inquisition.
Pope Paul VI reaffirms the Church's condemnation of contraception.
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 Councils of Lyons
The pope sought to conclude a treaty with Michael VIII Palaeologus and to unite the eastern and western churches.
The pope promulgated a collection of the council's constitutions on 1 November 1274, sent this to the universities with the bull Cum nuper, and informed all the faithful in the encyclical Infrascriptas.
It is our will certainly that the penalties imposed by Pope Innocent IV of happy memory on those who do not fully substantiate their objections against the form or the person, shall remain in force.
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 Pope Innocent IV
Pope (1243-1254), who asserted the universal dominion of the papacy by deposing his chief opponent, Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II.
Innocent then advised the German princes to elect a new emperor, and he lent his support first to Henry Raspe, landgrave of Thüringen, and later to William II of Holland.
Frederick's death in 1250 allowed Innocent to return triumphantly to Rome, but a struggle against Frederick's son Conrad IV ensued, and the conflict remained unresolved at the time of Innocent's death.
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 The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Consistories of the XIII Century
Pope Celestine IV was elected on October 25, 1241 and died on November 10, 1241.
Ottobono Fieschi, of the counts of Lavagna, nephew of Pope Innocent IV, archdeacon of Caterbury, of Reimas and of Parma.
Pope Innocent V was elected on January 21, 1276 and died on June 22, 1276.
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 13th Council, First Council of Lyons (A.D. 1245)
Innocent IV presided the Patriarchs of Constantinople, Antioch, and Aquileia (Venice), 140 bishops, Baldwin II, Emperor of the East, and St. Louis, King of France, assisted.
For in it can be found neither the condemnation of Frederick II, which seems to have been the chief matter of the council, nor the five constitutions pertaining to the important questions introduced by Innocent IV at the opening of the council, namely those concerned with the Tartars, the Latin east and the crusades.
Innocent {1}, bishop, servant of the servants of God, in the presence of the holy council, for an everlasting record.
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 BookRags: Innocent IV Biography
Pope Innocent IV (c.1185-1254), whose pontificate extended from June 25, 1243, to December 7, 1254, is chiefly remembered for his disputes with Emperor Frederick II and as the author of a commentary on the decretals of Pope Gregory IX.
Innocent attempted to mount a crusade against Frederick, but his ally King Louis IX of France, the only monarch powerful enough to confront Frederick, was unwilling to sign up for such an undertaking.Instead, the French king attempted to mediate a settlement.
Innocent IV, severely ill with pleurisy, died in Naples on December 7, 1254, and was buried in a tomb at the Basilica of Santa Restituta in Naples.
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 Pope Urban IV
Urban IV, given name Jacques Pantaléon, Roman Catholic Pope from the 29th of August 1261 to the 2nd of October 1264, was the son of a shoemaker of Troyes.
Having received a monastic education, he became archdeacon of Liége and papal legate of Pope Innocent IV to Poland and Prussia; he was consecrated bishop of Verdun in 1253, and two years later was translated to the patriarchate of Jerusalem.
He favoured Charles of Anjou, and declared in June 1263 that the papal grant of the kingdom to Edmund, son of King Henry III of England, had expired because of the latter's inability to oust the usurper Manfred.
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 History of the Mass: March 24 (59hist.htm)
Innocent was anything but innocent for he wielded power by raising funds by selling spiritual promises - a precursor to simony, and he sanctioned use of torture to squeeze confessions out of his enemies and those he mistrusted.
Innocent raised the further ire of Conrad when the former began shopping the the throne of Sicily around Europe in hopes of weakening the latter and gaining a strong ally to the south.
Though Innocent is still hailed as the "warrior who slayed the Hohenstaufen dragon," and for his contributions to Church Law and contributions to scholastics throughout Europe, he will unfortunately go down in papal annals as one who abused his privileges of the papacy and alienated many Christian leaders and nations throughout the continent.
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 HighBeam Encyclopedia – Free Online Encyclopedia for Reference, Research, Facts
CONRAD IV [Conrad IV] 1228-54, German king (1237-54), king of Sicily and of Jerusalem (1250-54), son of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II.
The struggle for supremacy between Frederick and Pope Innocent IV resulted in the election (1246) of Raspe as antiking at the behest of the pope.
When Frederick II died (1250) Conrad carried on the struggle with the pope, who was determined to bring about the downfall of the house of Hohenstaufen and to rule in Italy.
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 2ch13
Innocent IV was a far-sighted leader who realized the danger of a renewed Mongol attack on divided and unprepared Europe.
After the reign of Pope Innocent IV, the initiative in Europe's relations with the Mongols shifted away from the religious-diplomatic papal policy with its stress on baptism and conversion to the political-military arena once the Western kings and rulers became directly involved in East-West relations.
The popes and the Church failed to achieve their primary objective of converting the Mongols, but there were some noteworthy religious-intellectual results to offset the failure to convert the Asians.
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 The Popes Against The Jews
Pope Innocent III: “When Jews are admitted out of pity into familiar intercourse with Christians, they repay their hosts, according to the popular proverb, after the fashion of the rat hidden in the sack, or the snake in the bosom, or of the burning brand in one’s lap.”
Pope Saint Gregory I: “It has come to my ears that certain men of perverse spirit have sown among you some things that are wrong and opposed to the holy faith, so as to forbid any work being done on the Sabbath day.
Pope Innocent III at the Fourth Ecumenical Lateran Council: “The more the Christian religion is restrained from usurious practices, so much the more does the perfidy of the Jews grow in these matters, so that within a short time they are exhausting the resources of the Christians.
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 The Catholic Pope: Shepherd of Prophecy?
Pope Innocent III (1198-1216) asserted explicitly that the Pope is the Vicar of Christ; further defined at the Council of Florence in the Decree for the Greeks (1439) and Vatican Council I in Pastor Aerternus (1870).
Innocent IV (1243-1254) took the gradual deification of the Catholic pope another step when he described himself as the bodily presence of Christ (Praesentia Corporalis Christi).
Paul VI was the last of the Popes to receive the Triple Tiara, which for centuries symbolized the pope's threefold role as the Servant of the Servants of God.
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 Popes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Of noble birth, he was made cardinal in 1244 by Pope Innocent IV and protector of the Franciscans in 1261 by Pope Urban IV.
His bull revoked the concessions concerning the use of money made by Pope Innocent IV and clarified Innocent's ruling that all possessions of the order, except those reserved by the donors, belonged to the papacy.
Nicholas successfully continued Pope Gregory X's policy of restraining the ambitious Sicilian king Charles I of Anjou and did not renew Charles's positions as imperial vicar of Tuscany and senator of Rome, an office Nicholas prevented from ever again being filled by a foreign ruler.
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 Pope Innocent IV   1 October 1247   Papal Bull
Pope Innocent IV Papal Bull given on October 1, 1247.
Hugh, by mercy of God cardinal priest of St. Sabina, and William, by the same mercy bishop of Antarados offer salutation in him who is the welfare of all his beloved sons in Christ — the religious prior general and definitors of the general chapter of the Order of Brothers of Carmel.
In response to your devout requests the pope entrusted to us the work of making clarification, correction and mitigation in his name — keeping in mind the best interests of your Order and the welfare of your brothers.
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 Tribute to Pope John Paul II
Nevertheless, the Pope strongly pointed out that the secret of St. Thérèse’s doctrine and missionary outreach was her life of love in the monastery at Lisieux.
From 1997, Pope John Paul, though obviously suffering, redoubled his efforts to prepare the Church for the great Jubilee of the year 2000, which he hoped would be a time of spiritual renewal for the world.
In 1997 the whole Carmelite Family celebrated the 750th anniversary of the approval of the Rule by Pope Innocent IV in 1247.
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 Pope
Because of the fascination of the world with the office of the Pope and his power, and because of current discussions regarding who will be the next Pope, it is important to study the topic historically and in the light of Biblical truth.
Pope Gregory VII, the noted Hildebrand, ambitious beyond all who had preceded him, took to himself the idea that the reign of the Pope was but another name for the reign of God.
A general of Napoleon's army entered the Vatican, removing Pope Pius VI from his throne; and so it was that Popedom lost its basis as a civil power.
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