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Celestine IV

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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IV. (Godfrey Castiglione), pope in 1241, son of a sister of Urban III. (1185-1187), was archpriest and chancellor at Milan. After Urban's death he entered the Cistercian monastery at Hautecombe in Savoy. In 1 22 7 Gregory IX. created him cardinal priest of St Mark's, and in 1233 made him cardinal bishop of Sabina. Elected to succeed Gregory on the 25th of October 1241, he died on the 10th of November, before consecration, and was buried in St Peter's.

See A. Potthast, Regesta Pontificum Romanorum, vol. i. (Berlin, 18 74), 94 0 f.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Celestine IV'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​c/celestine-iv.html. 1910.
 
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