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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 IIIInnocent 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)
Lotario di Segni


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These developments coincided with the Gregorian reform -- extending through the pontificate of Innocent III -- which, for Levine, both de-monasticized and Christianized Europe.
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