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	Pope Urban IV - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Urban IV was the son of a cobbler of Troyes, France.
		The festival of Corpus Christi ("the Body of Christ") was instituted by Urban IV in 1264.
		Urban IV's military captain was the condottiere Azzo d'Este, nominally at the head of a loose league of cities that included Mantua and Ferrara.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pope_Urban_IV (553 words)

	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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pope_Alexander_IV (286 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Bl. Urban V
		Urban refused this request as well as another for the nomination of four cardinals chosen by the king.
		Rome had suffered terribly through the absence of her pontiffs, and it became apparent to Urban that if he remained at Avignon the work of the warlike Cardinal Albornoz in restoring to the papacy the States of the Church would be undone.
		Urban V was a man whose motives cannot be called in question: his policy aimed at Eurpoean peace; shortly before his death he had given orders that preparations should be made to enable him personally to visit and reconcile Edward III and Charles V.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15214a.htm (1824 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Urban IV
		Thus Urban was sure of a majority in the Sacred College, but he brought into being a French party which was a principal factor in ecclesiastical policy for the rest of the thirteenth century and in the fourteenth century became practically the whole College.
		In 1252 Innocent IV had granted the crown of Naples to the English Henry III for his second son, Edmund; but the king had his hands too full at home and was himself too prodigal to allow him to embark on the very costly Sicilian adventure.
		Urban made it his business to prove that the fault lay with his opponent, for European opinion was interested in a struggle in which great princes such as Alphonsus of Aragon and Baldwin, the exiled Latin Emperor of Constantinople, had intervened on the side of peace.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15212a.htm (1642 words)

	Christian History Handbook: Medieval: Lecture Twenty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Pope Clement V (1265-1268) broadened the reservation still more to include even the posts of minor church officials who happened to die or be translated while the incumbent was in Rome.
		In 1265 Pope Clement IV declared that the papacy had the right to fill all ecclesiastical offices and could therefore intervene freely at any level in the church even to the appointment of priests and canons in their benefices.
		Pope Innocent III (1198-1216) had taken administrative matters away from the court of the sacred palace and given it to a division of the Chancery called the audientia litterarum contradictarum, court [hearing] dealing with the letters of contending parties.
	www.sbuniv.edu /~hgallatin/ht34632e20.html (3488 words)

	Manfred of Sicily: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Manfred of Sicily
		But the pope, to whom the Saracen alliance was a serious offence, declared Manfred’s coronation void and pronounced sentence of excommunication.
		Terrified by these proceedings, Pope Urban IV implored aid from France, and persuaded Charles count of Anjou, a brother of King Louis IX, to accept the investiture of the kingdom of Sicily at his hands.
		His first wife was Beatrice, daughter of Amadeus IV count of Savoy, by whom he had a daughter, Constance, who became the wife of Peter III king of Aragon; and his second wife, who died in prison in 1271, was Helena, daughter of Michael II of Epirus[?].
	www.encyclopedian.com /ma/Manfred-of-Sicily.html (729 words)

	Pope Paul VI The World Pays Its Tribute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Pope Honorius I was not only condemned by the Council of Constantinople in 681 because he "followed the wicked teaching of the heretics" but the acts of the Council were signed by the papal legate and duly authenticated by Pope Leo II.
		Pope Paul VI constantly sought to promote and deepen mutual understanding among the churches; this was evinced by his great enthusiasm for the establishment of a Joint Working Group between the Roman Catholic Church and the World Council of Churches.
		Pope Paul VI understood his ministry as an instrument in the service of peace in the world and indefatigably recalled the duty of the church and indeed of every member of the church to contribute to overcoming the menace of war.
	www.sspx.ca /Angelus/1979_April/Pope_PaulVI.htm (3655 words)

	Pope Clement IV
		Pope Clement IV Guajara in other languages: Spanish, Deutsch, French, Italian...
		November 29, 1268), pope from 1265, (Guy Foulques, archbishop of Narbonne, France) was elected pope in February 1265.
		Before taking orders he had been successively a soldier and a lawyer, and in the latter capacity had acted as secretary to Louis IX of France, to whose influence he was chiefly indebted for his elevation.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/p/po/pope_clement_iv.html (262 words)

	April 7: HISTORY (apr7his.htm)
		Urban was born around the turn of the thirteenth century in Troyes, France where, as the son of a shoemaker he exceeded all expectations when he excelled in studies at the University of Paris and became a canon and then archdeacon.
		One of the great advantages that Urban possessed that his predecessors did not was the fact he was a non-Italian and therefore not subject to the in-fighting politics that had so hindered the previous popes.
		Urban appealed to King Louis but word never reached him as the messengers were either intercepted by Manfred's men or desserted the the Holy Father in cowardice.
	www.dailycatholic.org /issue/April/apr7his.htm (1152 words)

	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.
		Urban died before the arrival of Charles of Anjou, and was succeeded by Pope Clement IV.
	www.nndb.com /people/291/000095006 (260 words)

	MARTIN IV
		MARTIN IV When word reached Rome that Pope Nicholas had died, the turbulent barons and people swarmed into the streets to attack the Orsini.
		The late Pope's lavish favors to his family had kindled hate in many a heart, and now that the strong hand of Nicholas was lifeless, that hate exploded into violence.
		Pope Urban IV created him cardinal and in 1264 sent him as legate to France to persuade Charles of Anjou to undertake the conquest of Sicily.
	www.cfpeople.org /Books/Pope/POPEp187.htm (482 words)

	Caxton Project -- Women in the Middle Ages
		Pope Urban IV (1261-1264), son of a shoemaker of Troyes, decided to commemorate his family and native city by constructing a large church in the latest gothic style on the very site of his childhood home.
		The nuns were not pleased, as Urban had just reversed a very close election of their abbess and imposed the minority candidate.
		However, the abbess and some nuns of the Benedictine convent of Notre-Dame of Troyes along with armed men — as the dean and chapter of Saint-Urbain related to me — surrounded the archbishop and prevented him from entering the church by closing the church doors, even though he was carrying out a papal mandate.
	web.mountain.net /sootypaws/caxton/women/nuns.html (721 words)

	Christian History Handbook: Medieval: Lecture Twenty-one (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The thirteenth century pontificate of Innocent IV (1243-1254) is frequently seen as the point at which the institution altered its course in a way that eventually lead to the loss of much of the power and prestige it had gained.
		Previous popes had acted as sovereign and disinterested judges over the political affairs of Europe, now Innocent IV launched the papacy in new role as an active and interested participant in both international politics and the domestic politics of European states.
		Pope Clement IV (1265-1268) became the ally of the greedy and ambitious brother of the French king, Charles I of Anjou, who with Clement's help installed himself as king in Naples and Sicily (1268), Senator of Rome and the Count of Tuscany.
	www.sbuniv.edu /~hgallatin/ht34632e21.html (2167 words)

	URBAN IV
		Urban preached a crusade, but the crusade against Manfred prevented much coming of a crusade against the Moslem.
		Robert's successor, Henry, urged Urban to extend the feast to the whole world, and in a bull filled with glowing praise of the Holy Sacrament, Urban did so on August 11, 1264.
		To Urban also Catholics owe the very beautiful Mass and office of the feast, for it was at Urban's request that St. Thomas Aquinas wrote them.
	www.cfpeople.org /Books/Pope/POPEp180.htm (514 words)

	The Galileo Project \| Galileo \| Patrons \| Pope Urban VIII
		In 1601 he served as papal legate to the court of Henri IV, king of France; in 1604 he became archbishop of Nazareth (an office he obviously fulfilled in absentia since the Holy Land was under Moslem rule) and took up the post of papal nuncio (lit.
		Pope Urban strenghtened fortifications and armaments in the papal territories.
		It appears that the Pope never forgave Galileo for putting the argument of God's omnipotence (the argument he himelf had put to Galileo in 1623) in the mouth of Simplicio, the staunch Aristotelian whose arguments had been systematically destroyed in the previous 400-odd pages.
	galileo.rice.edu /gal/urban.html (740 words)

	Hughes: Albert the Great, 5
		In the year 1230 Jerusalem had fallen to the Saracens, Ascalon followed the same year, Gaza and Tiberias in 1244; and to the Christians of the Middle Ages the possession of the Holy Land by the infidel was one of the greatest conceivable calamities.
		Urban IV, formerly Patriarch of Jerusalem and papal legate in the Holy Land, appreciated more vividly than anyone the magnitude of the danger which threatened Europe, Christianity, and the whole of Western civilization.
		The pope also refers to his prudence in management and his skill in civil business, which may account for his being called upon in 1259 to settle a trade dispute between Cologne and Utrecht.
	www.spiritualitytoday.org /spir2day/ag05.html (3315 words)

	Sunday Homily - Feast of Corpus Christi
		At first he attempted to hide the blood, but then he interrupted the Mass and asked to be taken to the neighboring city of Orvieto, the city where Pope Urban IV was then residing.
		Pope Urban IV was prompted by this miracle to commission St. Thomas Aquinas to compose the liturgical prayers in honor of the Eucharist.
		One year after the miracle, in August of 1264, Pope Urban IV introduced the saint's compositions, and by means of a papal bull instituted the feast of Corpus Christi.
	www.goccn.org /Diocese/spcl/RefArcC/CorpusChristi.asp (1221 words)

	Urban IV on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		It was Urban who dealt the Hohenstaufen the fatal stroke by a definite renewal of the offer of the Sicilian throne to Charles of Anjou.
		Urban restored the papal finances to solvency, and he established the feast of Corpus Christi.
		The use of continuous IV sedation is associated with prolongation of mechanical ventilation.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/U/Urban4.asp (530 words)

	Greatest of Centuries 2
		Pope Gregory IX., the nephew of Innocent III., was one of the most important patrons of the study of law in this period (see Legal Origins in Other Countries), and encouraged the collection of the decrees of former Popes so as to make them available for purposes of study as well as for court use.
		The best possible proof that Pope Alexander cannot be considered as wishing to injure or even diminish the prestige of the University in any way, is to be found in the fact that he afterwards sent two of his nephews to Paris to attend at the University.
		It is not surprising to find that Pope Urban IV., who was a Frenchman and an alumnus of the University of Paris, elevated many French scholars, and especially his fellow alumni of Paris, to Church dignitaries of various kinds.
	www.nd.edu /Departments/Maritain/etext/walsh-b.htm (4282 words)

	Keeping Catholics Catholic Page XXV-The Timeline-The Twelfth Century-1263-1300 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Pope Urban IV Decrees Corpus Christi as a Solemnity.
		Pope Clement IV was in correspondence with the Byzantine Emperor, Michael VIII Palaeologus, who in 1261 liberated Constantinople from the Latins and who now wished the Pope to prevent the expedition King Charles was planning for the recovery of the city; the Emperor also indicated his eagerness for Church union.
		Pope Nicholas IV arranged for Giovanni Colonna to be elected sole Senator.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Ithaca/6461/1263.html (3048 words)

	swabian
		Pope Innocent, perhaps hoping to maintain the balance of power, aided Frederick's cause by excommunicating Otto and absolving his subjects from their duty to the Emperor.
		Pope Gregory, given the success of the crusade, was constrained to lift the excommunication.
		With his army defeated and Manfred showing himself an able governor of his kingdom, Pope Urban IV (elected 1261) showed himself as anti-Swabian as his predecessors by proffering the Sicilian Crown to Charles of Anjou (brother of Louis IX of France) if he were prepared to come and claim it.
	faculty.ed.umuc.edu /~jmatthew/naples/swabian.html (1594 words)

	Honorius IV -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		pope from 625 to 638 whose posthumous condemnation as a heretic subsequently caused extensive controversy on the question of papal infallibility.
		Nicknamed the Maiden because of his vow of celibacy, Malcolm IV assumed the Scottish throne in 1153, at the age of 11, after the death of his grandfather, David I, the youngest son of Malcolm III.
		Pope Gregory VII's 11th-century removal of Henry IV from the throne of Germany, one of the episodes of the Investiture Controversy.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9040956 (548 words)

	Aristotle and the Christian Church 8
		And it is in order to remove this stumbling-block from such souls that Urban IV., in a Bull to the University, forbids any further reading of the Physics and Metaphysics until they shall have been freed from all the doctrines contrary to the Faith.
		One year previous to the issuing of this Bull, in 1261, Urban called to Rome the Angelical Doctor, and had him to comment upon the very works, the reading of which for the time being he was prohibiting in Paris.
		Urban appreciates Aristotle, but he prizes still more the souls of the youths of Paris who are led astray from the teachings of the Church by false doctrines imposed upon them in the name of Aristotle.
	www.nd.edu /Departments/Maritain/etext/aatcc08.htm (1917 words)

	Popes & Patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, Alexandria, Antioch, etc.
		To Roman Catholics, the Pope may be the holiest man on earth, the heir and keeper of the deepest truths of religion.
		The Pope was not the ruler of that Church, but one of the Ecumenical Patriarchs, along with the Patriarchs of Jerusalem, Antioch, Alexandria, and Constantinople.
		Popes from a similiar family, the Medici, are featured in the genealogy of the Medici given with the rulers of Tuscany.
	www.friesian.com /popes.htm (8673 words)

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		At the request of King Henry III, Innocent IV (13 November, 1243) granted the bishop of Hereford the authority to dispense Hostiensis from the strictures of c.
		Pope Innocent IV granted the request of Henry III, his queen, and Richard of Cornwall, that Hostiensis be granted the right to retain a second benefice with the care of souls.
		Pope Alexander IV sent him as papal legate to northern Italy in 1259 to replace Phillip Fontana who had been captured by the allies of Manfred.
	faculty.cua.edu /pennington/1140d-h.htg/HOSTIENSIS.html (4953 words)

	MANFRED - LoveToKnow Article on MANFRED
		When in May 1254 the German king died, Manfred, after refusing to surrender Sicily to Pope Innocent IV., accepted the regency on behalf of Conradin, the infant son of Conrad.
		But the strength of the papal party in the Sicilian kingdom rendered the position of the regent so precarious that he decided to open negotiations with Innocent.
		Undeterred by this sentence Manfred sought to obtain power in central and northern Italy, and in conjunction with the Ghibellines his forces defeated the Guelphs at Monte Aperto on the 4th of September 1260.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MA/MANFRED.htm (698 words)

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