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Innocent III

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In·no·cent III  (n-snt) Originally Lotario di Segni. 1161-1216.
Pope (1198-1216) whose reign was marked by the Fourth Crusade and papal intervention in European politics.

Innocent III
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(Biographies / Innocent III (?1161-1216) M, Italian, RELIGION: pope) original name Giovanni Lotario de' Conti. ?1161-1216, pope (1198-1216), under whom the temporal power of the papacy reached its height. He instituted the Fourth Crusade (1202) and a crusade against the Albigenses (1208), and called the fourth Lateran Council (1215)
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Noun1.Innocent III - Italian pope from 1198 to 1216 who instituted the Fourth Crusade and under whom papal intervention in European politics reached its height (1161-1216)Innocent III - Italian pope from 1198 to 1216 who instituted the Fourth Crusade and under whom papal intervention in European politics reached its height (1161-1216)


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Its original practice could be traced back in the early centuries to the decree by Pope Innocent III which states that couples intended to marry must wait longer after being betrothed to one another.
The monastery is believed to have been the center of the Tarnovo Patriarchate at the time of the Union of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church with the Catholic Church in the Vatican that latest from 1204, when Pope Innocent III declared Kaloyan "Emperors of Wallachians and Bulgarians" until 1246.
It is based on a Latin poem from the 13th century, sometimes attributed to Pope Innocent III, but more realistically to Jacapone da Todi and deals with the suffering of Mary during Christ's Crucifixion.
 
 
 
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