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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Pope (1198–1216) whose reign was marked by the Fourth Crusade and papal intervention in European politics.
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- noun Italian pope from 1198 to 1216 who instituted the Fourth Crusade and under whom papal intervention in European politics reached its height (1161-1216)
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Examples
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But two years before his fallout with Innocent III, John was apparently on somewhat better terms with the Church.
Carolyn Vega: King John's 1205 Charter Carolyn Vega 2011
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But two years before his fallout with Innocent III, John was apparently on somewhat better terms with the Church.
Carolyn Vega: King John's 1205 Charter Carolyn Vega 2011
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The French abbot Peter the Venerable, an ally of Innocent III, expressed similar sentiments.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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The French abbot Peter the Venerable, an ally of Innocent III, expressed similar sentiments.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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But two years before his fallout with Innocent III, John was apparently on somewhat better terms with the Church.
Carolyn Vega: King John's 1205 Charter Carolyn Vega 2011
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But two years before his fallout with Innocent III, John was apparently on somewhat better terms with the Church.
Carolyn Vega: King John's 1205 Charter Carolyn Vega 2011
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They were valid in the times of Innocent III and Boniface VIII.
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It is immediately denounced by the pope, Innocent III, who absolves the king from all obligation to keep the pledges therein expressed and solemnized by the royal oath.
The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy Robert Elliott Flickinger
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Like his famous predecessor Innocent III, he had set his mind on the achievement of two great things, the recovery of the Holy Land and a spiritual reform of the entire Church; but quite in contrast with him he sought these achievements by kindness and indulgence rather than by force and severity.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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Among his pupils was Lothario de 'Conti, afterwards Innocent III, who held him in high esteem as is shown by the important cases which the pontiff submitted to him, traces of which still remain in the "Corpus Juris"
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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