CLEMENT III

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CLEMENT III . (Paolo Scolari), pope from 1187 to 1191, a Roman, was made cardinal bishop of Palestrina by Alexander III. in 118o or 1181. On the rgth of December 1187 he was chosen at Pisa to succeed Gregory VIII. On the 31st of May 1188' he concluded a treaty with the Romans which removed difficulties of long

standing

STANDING

, and in April 1189 he made peace with the emperor Frederick I.

Barbarossa

BARBAROSSA ("Redbeard")

. He settled a controversy with William of Scotland concerning the choice of the archbishop of St Andrews, and on the 13th of March 1188 removed the Scottish church from under the legatine jurisdiction of the archbishop of

York

YORK
YORK (
HOUSE
- HOUSE
- HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
  Gothic
  - GOTHIC
  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
OF)
YORK, EDMUND OF
LANGLEY
- LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)
, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
YORK, EDWARD
YORK, FREDERICK
AUGUSTUS
- AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)
, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

, thus making it independent of all save Rome. In spite of his conciliatory policy, Clement angered Henry VI. of Germany by bestowing Sicily on Tancred. The crisis was acute when the pope died, probably in the latter part of March 1191.
See " Epistolae et Privilegia," in J. P. Migne, Patrologiae cursus completes, tom. 204 (Paris, 1853), 1253 ff. ; additional material in Neues .Archiv fur die dltere deutsche Geschichtskunde, 2. 219; 6. 293; 14. 178-182; P. Jaffe, Regesta Pontificum Romanorum, tom. 2 (2nd edition,

Leipzig

LEIPZIG

, i888), 535 if. (W. W. R.*)

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