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MARTIN IV

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 793 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARTIN IV . (See also:Simon Mompitie de Brion), See also:pope from the 22nd of See also:February 1281 to the 28th of See also:March 1285, should have been named Martin II. He was See also:born about 1210 in See also:Touraine. He became a See also:priest at See also:Rouen and See also:canon of St Martin's at See also:Tours, and was made See also:chancellor of See also:France by See also:Louis IX. in 126o and See also:cardinal-priest of Sta See also:Cecilia by See also:Urban IV. in 1261. As papal See also:legate in France he held several synods for the See also:reformation of the See also:clergy and conducted the negotiations for the See also:assumption of the See also:crown of See also:Sicily by See also:Charles of See also:Anjou. It was through the latter's See also:influence that he succeeded See also:Nicholas III., after a six-months' struggle between the See also:French and See also:Italian cardinals. The See also:Romans at first declined to receive him, and he was consecrated at See also:Orvieto on the 23rd of March 1281. Peaceful and unassuming, he relied completely on Charles of Anjou, and showed little ability as pope. His See also:excommunication of the See also:emperor See also:Michael See also:Palaeologus (Nov. 1281), who stood in the way of the French projects against See also:Greece, weakened the See also:union with the Eastern Christians, dating from the See also:Lyons See also:Council of 1274. He unduly favoured his own countrymen, and for three years after the Sicilian See also:Vespers (See also:Mar. 31, 1282) he employed all the spiritual and material resources at his command on behalf of his See also:patron against See also:Peter of See also:Aragon.

He was driven from See also:

Rome by a popular uprising and died at See also:Perugia. His successor was See also:Honorius IV. (C. H. HA.) His registers have been published in the Bibliotheque See also:des ecoles francaises d'Athenes et de Rome (See also:Paris, 1901). See A. See also:Potthast, Regesta pontif. See also:roman., vol. 2 (See also:Berlin, 1875) ; K. J. von See also:Hefele, Conciliengeschichte, Bd. 6, 2nd ed.; F. See also:Gregorovius, Rome in the See also:Middle Ages, vol. 5, trans. by Mrs G.

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Hamilton (See also:London, 1900—1902); H. H. See also:Milman, Latin See also:Christianity, vol. 6 (London, 1899) ; W. See also:Norden, Das Papsttum u. Byzanz (Berlin, 1903) ; E. Choullier, " Recherches sur la See also:vie du pape Martin IV.," in Revue de See also:Champagne, vol. 4 (1878); Processo istorico dell' insurrezione di Sicilia dell' See also:anno 1282, ed. by G. di Marzo (See also:Palermo, 1882).

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