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Innocent IV

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Innocent IV
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(Biographies / Innocent IV (death date: 1254) M, Italian, RELIGION: pope) original name Sinibaldo de' Fieschi. died 1254, pope (1243-54); an unrelenting enemy of Emperor Frederick II and his heirs


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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Knowing that formal papal approval was the only way her Rule could survive through the ages, Clare pressed Pope Innocent IV until he acquiesed.
The pontificates of Gregory IX and Innocent IV that followed included crusades on Prussia, Livonia, Estonia, Finland and Russia, and Gregory IX further involved the mendicant orders in follow-up.
The image was in fact introduced in the mid-thirteenth century by Sinibaldo dei Fieschi, the future Pope Innocent IV, in his Apparatus or commentary to Gregory IX's Decretales: "Contra jus gentium fuit inventum a jure civili, ut credatur pelli animali mortui"--against the "jus gentium" the civil law has decided that we must believe in the skin of a dead animal.
 
 
 
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