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ALEXANDER IV

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 553 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: AJA-ALL
ALEXANDER IV . (Rinaldo),
pope
  from 1254 to 1261, was, like Innocent III. and Gregory IX., a member of the family of the
counts
  of Segni. His uncle Gregory IX. made him cardinal deacon in 1227 and cardinal
bishop
  of Ostia in 1231. On the death of Innocent IV. he was elected
pope
  at Naples on the 12th of December 1254. He is described as a stout man, kindly, cheerful, but of no
great
  brilliancy. He succeeded Innocent IV. as guardian of Conradin, the last of the Hohenstaufen, promising him his benevolent
protection
 ; but in less than a fortnight he conspired against him and bitterly opposed Conradin's uncle Manfred. Alexander fulminated with
excommunication
  and interdict against the party of Manfred, but in vain; nor could he enlist the kings of England and Norway in a crusade against the Hohenstaufen. Rome itself became too Ghibelline for the pope, who withdrew to Viterbo, where he died on the 25th of May 1261. His pontificate was signalized by efforts to unite the Greek and Latin churches, by the
establishment
  of the
Inquisition
  in France, by favours shown to the mendicant orders, and by an attempt to organize a crusade against the
Tatars
 .
The registers of Alexander IV. are published by Bourel de la
Ronciere and others in the Bibliotheque des Ecoles frangaises d'Athenes et de Rome, Paris, 1895 if. (W. W. R.*)


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