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Innocent III (born 1160/61, Gavignano Castle, Campagna di Roma, Papal States [now in Italy]—died July 16, 1216, Perugia) was the most significant pope of the Middle Ages.
Innocent III, orig. Lothar of Segni, (born 1160/61, Gavignano Castle, Campagna di Roma, Papal States—died July 16, 1216, Perugia), Pope (1198–1216). Innocent, who was trained in both theology and law, brought the medieval papacy to the height of its prestige and power.
Map of the Papal States (green) in 1789, including its exclaves of Benevento and Pontecorvo in southern Italy, and the Comtat Venaissin and Avignon in southern France. The legations of the Papal States in 1850: Rome, I. Romagna, II. Marche, III.
Pope Innocent III ( Latin: Innocentius Tertius; 1160 or 1161 – 16 July 1216) was an Italian priest of the Roman Catholic Church and the 177th Pope from 1198 until his death in 1216. [1] Early life. Lotario di Conti was born at Anagni [2] in central Italy. His father was Count Trasimund of Segni [3] who was a member of the Conti family .
Papal States, territories of central Italy over which the pope had sovereignty from 756 to 1870. Included were the modern Italian regions of Lazio (Latium), Umbria, and Marche and part of Emilia-Romagna, though the extent of the territory, along with the degree of papal control, varied over the.
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Pope Innocent III (Latin: Innocentius III; 22 February 1161 – 16 July 1216), born Lotario dei Conti di Segni (anglicized as Lothar of Segni), was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 8 January 1198 until his death on 16 July 1216.
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Aug 5, 2012 · Jacob Burckhardt spoke of ‘a thorough anomaly among the powers of Italy’, and the most recent research on the Italian Renaissance states as a whole has defined the papal dominions as ‘an area of utter peculiarity’.
