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Innocent III
noun
- Giovanni Lotario de' Conti, 1161?鈥1216, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1198鈥1216.
Innocent III
noun
- Innocent III?11611216MItalianRELIGION: pope original name Giovanni Lotario de' Conti. ?1161鈥1216, pope (1198鈥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)
Example Sentences
He motioned around the grounds, which was once the summer palace of Pope Innocent III, who, Harnwell said, exemplified the principle of inseparability between catechism and politics.
It is time to be honest and admit that Douthat wants to return to the world of Innocent III, the Albigensian Crusade and of societal based restrictions.
Two centuries later, Pope Innocent III predicted that the end would arrive 666 years after the birth of Islam.
He annoyed Pope Innocent III so much the pontiff excommunicated John and ordered England's churches closed.
When Pope Innocent III excommunicated King John in 1209, it took months for the news to get from Rome to London.
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