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NICHOLAS IV

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 650 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NICHOLAS IV . (See also:Girolamo Masci), See also:pope from the 22nd of See also:February 1288 to the 4th of See also:April 1292, a native of See also:Ascoli and a Franciscan See also:monk, had been See also:legate to the Greeks under See also:Gregory X. in 1272, succeeded St See also:Bonaventura as See also:general of his See also:order in 1274, was made See also:cardinal-See also:priest of Sta Prassede and Latin See also:patriarch of See also:Constantinople by Nicholas III., cardinal-See also:bishop of See also:Palestrina by See also:Martin IV., and succeeded See also:Honorius IV. after a ten-months' vacancy in the papacy. He was a pious, See also:peace-loving monk with no ambition See also:save for the See also:church, the See also:crusades and the extirpation of See also:heresy. He steered a See also:middle course between the factions at See also:Rome, and sought a See also:settlement of the Sicilian question. In May 1 289 he crowned See also:Charles II. See also:king of See also:Naples and See also:Sicily after the latter had expressly recognized papal See also:suzerainty, and in February 1291 concluded a treaty with See also:Alphonso III. of See also:Aragon and See also:Philip IV. of See also:France looking toward the See also:expulsion of See also:James of Aragon from Sicily. The loss of Ptolemais in 1291 stirred the pope to renewed See also:enthusiasm for a crusade. He sent the celebrated Franciscan missionary, See also:John of See also:Monte Corvino, with some companions to labour among the See also:Tatars and See also:Chinese. He issued an important constitution on the 18th of See also:July 1289, which granted to the cardinals one-See also:half of all income accruing to the See also:Roman see and a See also:share in the See also:financial management, and thereby paved the way for that See also:independence of the See also:college of cardinals which, in the following See also:century, was to be of detriment to the papacy. Nicholas died in the See also:palace which he had built beside Sta Maria See also:Maggiore, and was succeeded by See also:Celestine V. See " See also:Les Registres de See also:Nicolas IV.," ed. by Ernest See also:Langlois in Bibliotheque See also:des ecoles francaises d'Athenes et de Rome (See also:Paris, 1886–1893) ; A. See also:Potthast, Regesta pontif. Roman. vol.

2 (See also:

Berlin, 1875) ; F. See also:Gregorovius, Rome in the Middle Ages, vol. 5, trans. by Mrs G. W. See also:Hamilton (See also:London, 1900–1902) ; O. Schiff, " Studien zur Geschichte Papst Nikolaus IV." in Historische Studien (1897); W. See also:Norden, Das Papsttum u. Byzanz (Berlin, i9o3) ; R. Rohricht, Geschichte des Konigreichs See also:Jerusalem (See also:Innsbruck, 1898); J. B. Sagmuller, See also:Die Thatigkeit u. Stellung der Kardinale bis See also:Pabst Bonifaz VIII.

(See also:

Freiburg-i.-B., 1896) ; J. P. See also:Kirsch, " Die Finanzverwaltung des Kardinalkollegiums See also:im 13. u. 14. Jahrhunderte " in Kirchengeschichtliche Studien (1895). (C. H.

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