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CELESTINE III

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 600 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CELESTINE III . (Giacinto Bobo), See also:pope from 1191 to 1198, was See also:cardinal See also:deacon of See also:Santa Maria in Cosmedin as See also:early as 1144, and had reached the See also:age of eighty-five when chosen on the 3oth of See also:March 1191 to succeed See also:Clement III. The first pope of the See also:house of the See also:Orsini, his policy was marked by mildness and indecision. See also:Henry VI. of See also:Germany at once forced the pontiff to See also:crown him See also:emperor, and three or four years later took See also:possession of the See also:Norman See also:kingdom of See also:Sicily; he refused See also:tribute and the See also:oath of See also:allegiance, and even appointed bishops subject to his own See also:jurisdiction; moreover, he gave his See also:brother in See also:fief the estates which had belonged to the countess See also:Matilda of See also:Tuscany. Celestine did not dare so much as to threaten him with See also:excommunication. It was Celestine's purpose to See also:lay See also:England under the See also:interdict; but See also:Prince See also:John and the barons still refused to recognize the papal See also:legate, the See also:bishop of See also:Ely. See also:Richard I. had been set See also:free before the See also:dilatory pope put See also:Leopold of See also:Austria under the See also:ban. In his last sickness Celestine wished to resign his See also:office, but the cardinals protested. See also:Death released him from his perplexities on the 8th of See also:January 1198. See " Epistolae Coelestini III. Papae," in M. Bouquet, Receuil See also:des historiens des Gaules et de la See also:France, tome 19 (See also:Paris, 1738 ff.) ; J.

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Migne, Patrologiae cursus completus, tome 206 (Paris, 1855), 867 ff.; further See also:sources in Neues Archie See also:file See also:die dltere deutsche Geschichtskunde, 2. 218; II. 398 f.; 12. 411-414; P. Jaffe, Regesta Pontificum Romanorum, vol. ii. (2nd ed., See also:Leipzig, 1888), 577 if. (W. W.

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