Celestine III

Celestine III
(Giacinto Bobone)
died 1198, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1191-98.

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pope
original name  Giacinto Bobone , or  Bobo-Orsini 
born c. 1106, Rome, Papal States [Italy]
died Jan. 8, 1198, Rome

      pope from 1191 to 1198.

      He was Peter Abélard (Abelard, Peter)'s student and friend, and he carried out many important legations in Germany, Spain, and Portugal; St. Thomas Becket (Becket, Saint Thomas) considered him his most reliable friend at the Roman Curia. He had been cardinal deacon of Santa Maria in Cosmedin, Italy, for 47 years when, on March 30, 1191, at the age of 85, he was elected as the first member of the Roman Orsini family to become pope. On the eve of his consecration he was ordained priest (April 13), and the day after his consecration he crowned King Henry VI of Germany as Holy Roman emperor.

      Celestine's pontificate was overshadowed by the spectacular successes of Henry, who not only ignored the fact that Sicily had been a vassal of the Holy See but, contrary to a treaty between the Holy Roman emperor Frederick I Barbarossa and Pope Clement III, also failed to restore the full extent of the Papal States to Celestine. Despite the anxiety that the emperor's ambitious projects caused the pope, he never excommunicated him, not even when Henry imprisoned the returning crusader-king of England, Richard I the Lion-Heart. Celestine weakly supported Henry's crusade, which would probably have led to a Latin conquest of the Byzantine Empire earlier than it occurred. In his 90s, Celestine sought to abdicate at the end of 1197, but the cardinals refused his request. Nonetheless, Celestine died soon after, and Henry died within a few months of the pope. Celestine's conciliatory and temporizing policy toward Henry was probably caused not by senile weakness, as has been asserted, but rather by moderation and patience.

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