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Born Lothair of Segni in 1160 or 1161, he was educated in Rome, Paris, and Bologna. In 1190 Pope Clement III named Lothair a cardinal deacon in the church, though he was not yet a priest. When Pope Celestine III died on Jan. 8, 1198, Lothair was immediately elected pope, taking the name Innocent III. The medieval popes had accumulated a great ...
Feb 1, 2018 · The Fourth Crusade. The Fourth Crusade was launched by Pope Innocent III (r. 1198-1216 CE) in 1202 CE with the principal intention of reclaiming Jerusalem for Christendom after its fall in 1187 CE to Saladin, Sultan of Egypt (r. 1169-1193 CE).
Albigensian Crusade, Crusade (1209–29) called by Pope Innocent III against the Cathari, a dualist religious movement in southern France that the Roman Catholic Church had branded heretical. The war pitted the nobility of staunchly Catholic northern France against that of the south, where the Cathari were tolerated and even enjoyed the support ...
Pope Innocent III, son of Trasmondo of the counts of Segni, and of Clarina of the noble families of the City, was a man of acute intelligence and tenacious memory, learned in divine and human literature, eloquent in speech, both in Latin and the vernacular, well trained in chant and psalmody. He was of medium stature and handsome appearance.
Pope Innocent III. (Lotario de' Conti) One of the greatest popes of the Middle Ages, son of Count Trasimund of Segni and nephew of Clement III, born 1160 or 1161 at Anagni, and died 16 June, 1216, at Perugia. He received his early education at Rome, studied theology at Paris, jurisprudence at Bologna, and became a learned theologian and one of ...
Sep 6, 2018 · The Fifth Crusade (1217-1221 CE) was called by Pope Innocent III (r. 1198-1216 CE) with the objective, like previous crusades, of recapturing Jerusalem from Muslim control; only this time the strategy was to weaken the enemy by first attacking Muslim-held cities in North Africa and Egypt, then controlled by the Ayyubid dynasty (1174-1250 CE).
