Pope Alexander IV

Pope Alexander IV

Infobox Pope
English name=Alexander IV


birth_name=Rinaldo di Jenne
term_start=December 12 1254
term_end=May 25 1261
predecessor=Innocent IV
successor=Urban IV
birth_date=1199| or ca. 1185birthplace=Anagni, Italy
dead=dead
death_date=death date|1261|5|25|mf=y
deathplace=Viterbo, Italy
other=Alexander

Pope Alexander IV (1199 or ca. 1185 – May 25 1261) was Pope from 1254 until his death.

Born as Rinaldo di Jenne, a native of Jenne, near Anagni, he was, on his mother's side, a member of the de' Conti di Segni family, the counts of Segni, like Pope Innocent III (1198 - 1216) and Pope Gregory IX (1227 - 1241). His uncle, Pope Gregory IX made him Cardinal Deacon and Protector of the Order of Franciscans in 1227, Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church from 1227 until 1231 and Bishop of Ostia in 1231 (or 1232). He became Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals in 1244 (or in 1240). On the death of Pope Innocent IV (1243 - 1254) he was elected Pope at Naples on December 12 1254.

Alexander IV succeeded Innocent IV as guardian of Conradin, the last of the Hohenstaufen, promising him protection; but in less than a fortnight he conspired against him and bitterly opposed Conradin's uncle Manfred. Fact|date=December 2007 Alexander IV threatened excommunication and interdict against the party of Manfred, without effect. Nor could he enlist the Kings of England and Norway in a crusade against the Hohenstaufen. Rome itself became too Ghibelline for the Pope, who withdrew to Viterbo, where he died in 1261. He was buried in Viterbo Cathedral, but his tomb was destroyed during sixteenth century renovations.

His pontificate was signalized by efforts to unite the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches, by the establishment of the Inquisition in France, by favours shown to the mendicant orders, and by an attempt to organize a crusade against the Tatars after the second raid against Poland in 1259.

On 12th April, 1261, shortly before his death, he granted a papal bull to Henry III of England, absolving him of oaths taken in the Provisions of Oxford, which was instrumental in the Second Barons' War. [cite book|author=Harding, Alan|title=England in the Thirteenth Century|publisher=Cambridge University Press|page=p.290]

References


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*cite book|author=Harding, Alan|title=England in the Thirteenth Century|publisher=Cambridge University Press|page=p.290
*1911

See also

*Battle of Ain Jalut

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