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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Innocent III |
 | | Italy was tired of being ruled by a host of German adventurers, and the pope experienced little difficulty in extending his political power over the peninsula. |
 | | The following saints were canonized by Innocent: Homobonus, a merchant of Cremona, on 12 January, 1199; the Empress Cunegond, on 3 March, 1200; William, Duke of Aquitaine in 1202; Wulstan, Bishop of York, on 14 May, 1203; Procopius, abbot at Prague, on 2 June, 1204; and Guibert,the founder of the monastery at Gembloux, in 1211. |
 | | Innocent died at Perugia, while travelling through Italy in the interests of the crusade which had been decided upon at the Lateran Council. |
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