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CLEMENT III

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 483 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CLEMENT III . (See also:Paolo Scolari), See also:pope from 1187 to 1191, a See also:Roman, was made See also:cardinal See also:bishop of See also:Palestrina by See also:Alexander III. in 118o or 1181. On the rgth of See also:December 1187 he was chosen at See also:Pisa to succeed See also:Gregory VIII. On the 31st of May 1188' he concluded a treaty with the See also:Romans which removed difficulties of See also:long See also:standing, and in See also:April 1189 he made See also:peace with the See also:emperor See also:Frederick I. See also:Barbarossa. He settled a controversy with See also:William of See also:Scotland concerning the choice of the See also:archbishop of St See also:Andrews, and on the 13th of See also:March 1188 removed the Scottish See also:church from under the legatine See also:jurisdiction of the archbishop of See also:York, thus making it See also:independent of all See also:save See also:Rome. In spite of his conciliatory policy, Clement angered See also:Henry VI. of See also:Germany by bestowing See also:Sicily on See also:Tancred. The crisis was acute when the pope died, probably in the latter See also:part of March 1191. See " Epistolae et Privilegia," in J. P. See also:Migne, Patrologiae cursus completes, tom. 204 (See also:Paris, 1853), 1253 ff.

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fur See also:die dltere deutsche Geschichtskunde, 2. 219; 6. 293; 14. 178-182; P. Jaffe, Regesta Pontificum Romanorum, tom. 2 (2nd edition, See also:Leipzig, i888), 535 if. (W. W.

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