Online Encyclopedia

Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.

CLEMENT IV

Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 484 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
Spread the word: del.icio.us del.icio.us it!

See also:

CLEMENT IV . (Gui Foulques), See also:pope from 1265 to 1268, son of a successful lawyer and See also:judge, was See also:born at St Gilles-sur-See also:Rhone. He studied See also:law, and became a valued adviser of See also:Louis IX. of See also:France. He married, and was the See also:father of two daughters, but after the See also:death of his wife took orders. In 1257 he became See also:bishop of Le See also:Puy; in 1259 he was elected See also:archbishop of See also:Narbonne; and on the 24th of See also:December 1261 See also:Urban IV. created him See also:cardinal bishop of Sabina. He was appointed See also:legate in See also:England on the 22nd of See also:November 1263, and before his return was elected pope at See also:Perugia on the 5th of See also:February 1265. On the 26th of February he invested See also:Charles of See also:Anjou with the See also:kingdom of See also:Sicily; but subsequently he came into conflict with Charles, especially after the death of See also:Manfred in February 1266. To the See also:cruelty and avarice of Charles he opposed a generous humanity. When See also:Conradin, the last of the See also:Hohenstaufen, appeared in See also:Italy the pope excommunicated him and his sup-porters, but it is improbable that he was in the remotest degree responsible for his See also:execution. At See also:Viterbo, where he spent most of his pontificate, Clement died on the 29th of November 1268, leaving a name unsullied by nepotism. As the benefactor and See also:protector of See also:Roger See also:Bacon he has a See also:special See also:title to the gratitude of posterity. See A.

See also:

Potthast, Regesta Pontificum Romanorum, vol. ii. (See also:Berlin, 1875), 1542 ff.; E. See also:Jordan, See also:Les Registres de Clement IV (See also:Paris, 1893 ff.) ; See also:Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie (3rd ed., vol. iv., See also:Leipzig, 1898), 144 f.; J. Heidemann, Papst Clemens IV., I. Teil: Das Vorleben See also:des Papstes and sein Legationsregister=Kirchengeschichtliche Studien, herausgegeben von Knopfler, &c., 6. See also:Band, 4. Heft (See also:Munster, 1903), reprints Processus legationis in Angliam. (W. W.

End of Article: CLEMENT IV

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click, and select "copy." Then paste it into your website, email, or other HTML.
Site content, images, and layout Copyright © 2006 - Net Industries, worldwide.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.

Links to articles and home page are always encouraged.

[back]
CLEMENT III
[next]
CLEMENT IX