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CELESTINE IV

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 600 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CELESTINE IV . (See also:Godfrey See also:Castiglione), See also:pope in 1241, son of a See also:sister of See also:Urban III. (1185-1187), was See also:archpriest and See also:chancellor at See also:Milan. After Urban's See also:death he entered the Cistercian monastery at Hautecombe in See also:Savoy. In 1227 See also:Gregory IX. created him See also:cardinal See also:priest of St See also:Mark's,and in 1233 made him cardinal See also:bishop of Sabina. Elected to succeed Gregory on the 25th of See also:October 1241, he died on the loth of See also:November, before See also:consecration, and was buried in St See also:Peter's. See A. See also:Potthast, Regesta Pontificum Romanorum, vol. i. (See also:Berlin, 1874), 940 f.

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