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CELESTINE II

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 600 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CELESTINE II ., See also:pope in 1143-1144. Guido of Citta di See also:Castello (Tiferno), See also:born of See also:noble Tuscan See also:family, able and learned, studied under See also:Abelard and became a See also:cardinal See also:priest. Elected the successor of See also:Innocent II. on the 26th of See also:September 1143, he died on the 8th of See also:March following. He removed the See also:interdict which Innocent had employed against See also:Louis VII. of See also:France. At the See also:time of his See also:death he was on the See also:verge of a controversy with See also:Roger of See also:Sicily. See A. Certini, Vita (See also:Foligno, 1716) ; M. Bouquet, Recueil See also:des historiens des Gaules (See also:Paris, 1738 ff.), tome 15, 408-411; See also:Migne, Patrologiae cursus completus, 179, 765-820; P. Jaffe, Regesta Pontificum Romanorum, 2nd ed. vol. ii. (Lipsiae, 1888), I ff.; Wetzer and Welte, Kirchenlexikon, 2nd ed. vol. iii. (See also:Freiburg, 1884), 578 ff.; See also:Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopiidie, 3rd ed. vol. iv. (See also:Leipzig, 1898), 201.

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