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- He excommunicated Frederick II for his delay in fulfilling his promise to go on a crusade, and when he sailed unreconciled in 1228, proclaimed an interdict over his land and wherever he went. In 1230 he agreed to a treaty with the Emperor, but in 1239 he excommunicated him again and died while Frederick was besieging Rome.
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Gregory IX (born before 1170—died Aug. 22, 1241, Rome) was one of the most vigorous of the 13th-century popes (reigned 1227–41), a canon lawyer, theologian, defender of papal prerogatives, and founder of the papal Inquisition.
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At the coronation of Frederick II in Rome, 22 November 1220, the emperor made a vow to embark for the Holy Land in August 1221. Gregory IX began his pontificate by suspending the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, for dilatoriness in carrying out the promised Sixth Crusade.
Pope Gregory IX served as the pope from March 19, 1227, until his death on August 22, 1241. His pontificate was marked by a series of significant events and policies that shaped Catholicism and the Catholic Church in ways that still echo today.
One of Gregory IX's first acts as pope was to move against Frederick II for failing to fulfill his vow to involve himself personally in the Crusades. Frederick and his army had set sail from Brindisi for Acre in the Holy Land, but an epidemic forced Frederick to return to Italy.
Click to enlarge. Gregory IX (Ugolino, Count of Segni ), POPE; b. about 1145, at Anagni in the Campagna; d. August 22, 1241, at Rome. He received his education at the Universities of Paris and Bologna.
He assisted Francis in the composition of the Franciscan rule, the regula bullata of 1223. He was also a supporter of St. Dominic and the Dominicans. On the death of Honorius III, he was immediately elected pope. It was a critical period.
GREGORY IX, DECRETALS OF The first authentic general collection of papal decretals and constitutions, promulgated by Pope Gregory IX in 1234. When Gregory became pope in 1227 the chief collection of the legal tradition of the church was still the Decretum of gratian, then almost 90 years old.
