Bishops of Verdun - Pope Urban IV, Nicolas, Duke of Merc Ur, John, Cardinal of Lorraine, Nicolas Psaume, Louis-Ernest DuBois, Louis I of Bar (Paperback)

Chapters: Pope Urban Iv, Nicolas, Duke of Merc ur, John, Cardinal of Lorraine, Nicolas Psaume, Louis-Ernest Dubois, Louis I of Bar, Louis, Count of Vaudemont, Guy of Roye, Vitonus. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Pope Urban IV (c. 1195 in Troyes, France October 2, 1264 in Perugia), born Jacques Pantaleon, was Pope, from 1261 to 1264. He was not a cardinal, and there have been several Popes since him who have not been Cardinals, including Urban V and Urban VI. Urban IV was the son of a cobbler of Troyes, France. He studied theology and common law in Paris, and was appointed a canon of Laon and later Archdeacon of Liege. At the First Council of Lyon (1245) he attracted the attention of Pope Innocent IV (12431254) who sent him on two missions in Germany. One of the missions was to negotiate the Treaty of Christburg between the pagan Prussians and the Teutonic Knights. He became the bishop of Verdun in 1253. In 1255, Pope Alexander IV (12541261) made him Patriarch of Jerusalem. He had returned from Jerusalem, which was in dire straits, and was at Viterbo seeking help for the oppressed Christians in the East when Alexander IV died, and after a three-month vacancy Pantaleon was chosen by the eight cardinals of the Sacred College to succeed him, on August 29, 1261, taking the name of Urban IV. The Latin Empire of Constantinople came to an end with the capture of the city by the Greeks (led by their Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos) a fortnight before Urban IV's election; Urban IV endeavoured without success to stir up a crusade to restore the Latin Empire. The festival of Corpus Christi ("the Body of Christ") was instituted by Urban IV in 1264. Italy commanded Urban IV's full attention: the long confrontation with the late Hohenstaufen Frederick II ha...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=24286