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GREGORY III

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 568 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GREGORY III ., See also:pope from 731 to 741. He condemned the See also:iconoclasts at a See also:council convened at See also:Rome in See also:November 731, and, like his predecessor Gregory II., stimulated the missionary labours of St See also:Boniface, on whom he conferred the See also:pallium. Towards the See also:Lombards he took up an imprudent attitude, in support of which he in vain invoked the aid of the Frankish See also:prince See also:Charles Martel.

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