Urban III

Urban III
(Uberto Crivelli) Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1185-87.

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▪ pope
original name  Umberto Crivelli  
born Milan
died Oct. 19/20, 1187, Ferrara, Romagna

      pope from 1185 to 1187.

      Of noble birth, he was made cardinal and archbishop of Milan in 1182 by Pope Lucius III, whom he succeeded on Nov. 25, 1185, and from whom he inherited an imperial diplomatic crisis that harassed his entire pontificate.

      On Jan. 27, 1186, Henry VI, son of the Holy Roman emperor Frederick I Barbarossa (Frederick I) (of the Hohenstaufen dynasty), married Constance, the daughter and heiress of the late king Roger II of Sicily. Urban resented the marriage as an attempt to encircle the papacy, for it confronted him with the ominous prospect of Hohenstaufen domination of southern and northern Italy. The marriage was conducted at Milan by the patriarch of Aquileia, who soon after crowned Henry as king of Italy, which Urban considered a deliberate offense to his authority. He excommunicated the patriarch.

      The emperor and the pope later clashed on ecclesiastical matters. Against the imperial candidate, Rudolph, Urban consecrated (June 1, 1186) Folman as archbishop of Trier, whereupon the emperor dispatched Henry to invade the Papal States. In April/May 1187 Frederick convoked the Diet of Gelnhausen, which barred the papal legate Philip of Heinsberg, archbishop of Cologne, and whose bishops supported the emperor. On hearing the results, Urban summoned the emperor to Verona, whose citizens refused to allow the pope to use their city as the place of Frederick's excommunication. Thus, Urban started for Venice to complete his plans, but he died en route. An open rupture resulted, and a long, disastrous struggle for southern Italy developed between the two factions.

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