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URBAN IV

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 790 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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URBAN IV . (Jacques Pantaleon), See also:pope from the 29th of See also:August 1261 to the 2nd of See also:October 1264, was the son of a See also:shoe-maker of See also:Troyes. Having received a monastic See also:education, he became See also:archdeacon of See also:Liege and papal See also:legate of See also:Innocent IV. to See also:Poland and See also:Prussia; he 'was consecrated See also:bishop of See also:Verdun in 1253, and two years later was translated to the patriarchate of See also:Jerusalem. While on a trip to See also:Italy to explain at See also:court a See also:quarrel with the Hospitallers he was elected to succeed See also:Alexander IV., after a three months' vacancy in the See also:Holy See. He never visited See also:Rome, but lived most of his pontificate at See also:Orvieto. He favoured his own countrymen, and under him began that preponderance of the See also:French in the See also:curia which later led to the papal See also:residence at See also:Avignon, and indirectly to the See also:Great See also:Schism. He endeavoured without success to stir up See also:Louis IX. of See also:France to undertake a new crusade. In 1264 he instituted the festival of Corpus Christi. His See also:chief domestic problems arose out of the competing claims for the See also:crown of the Two Sicilies. He favoured See also:Charles of See also:Anjou, and declared in See also:June 1263 that the papal See also:grant of the See also:kingdom to See also:Edmund, son of See also:Henry III. of See also:England, had expired because of the latter's inability to oust the usurper See also:Manfred. Urban died before the arrival of Charles of Anjou, and was succeeded by See also:Clement IV. The registers of Urban IV. have been published by L.

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Guiraud in the Bibliotheque See also:des ecoles francaises d'Athenes et de Rome (See also:Paris, 1892). See F. See also:Gregorovius, Rome in the See also:Middle Ages, vol. 5, trans. by Mrs G. W. See also:Hamilton (See also:London, 1900–2) ; H. H. See also:Milman, Latin See also:Christianity, vol. 6 (London, 1899); K. Hampe, " Urban IV. and Manfred " in A bhandlungen zur mittleren u. neueren Geschichte (See also:Heidelberg, 1905) ; Sievert, " Das Vorleben Papst Urbans IV." in See also:Die romische Quartalschrift (1898) ; A. See also:Potthast, Regesta pontif.

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Roman. (See also:Berlin, 1375).

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