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Showing posts with label Pope Honorius III. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pope Honorius III. Show all posts
15 May 2025

The Great Mongol Hope

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Pope Honorius III (fl.1216 - 1227), in a letter dated 20 June 1221, referred to "forces coming from the Far East to rescue the Holy Lan...
17 April 2024

Teen Queen of Jerusalem

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Isabella II was the daughter of John of Brienne and Maria of Montferrat. Maria (1192 - 1212) was the daughter of Isabella I, Queen of Jerusa...
13 April 2024

Pope Gregory IX

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Ugolino di Conti's birth year is suggested as somewhere between 1145 and 1170, but there are suggestions that he was in his 90s at his d...
05 February 2024

The Hospital Brothers of Saint Anthony

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In 1095 CE, Gaston of Valloire (or of Dauphiné) founded a religious order, sanctioned by Pope Urban II (who also called for the First Crusad...
13 July 2022

Jacques de Vitry

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It seems unfair that I mention Jacques de Vitry here and here and here , and don't really tell much more than he was a cardinal. He wa...
01 March 2022

The Inns of Court

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To my surprise, I have used "law" or "laws" (should really get around to combining them) as keywords in 43 posts (out of...
06 August 2014

St. Dominic

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The Dominicans have been mentioned many times, and their founder has been mentioned as a friend of Simon de Montfort, but his life deser...
17 January 2014

Scholar of the Supernatural

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[I am on a brief vacation, so here is a post from the past. This post first appeared 23 August 2012.] In Dante's Inferno , the eighth ...
17 August 2012

Frederick II

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Frederick II of Sicily (1194-1250) has crossed the path of this blog more than once, but has not yet been featured. He declared the Edict ...