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INNOCENT II

This article appears in Volume V14, Page 578 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: I27-INV
INNOCENT II . (Gregorio Paparesci dei Guidoni), pope from 1130 to 1143, was originally a
Benedictine
  monk. His ability, pure life and political connexions raised him rapidly to power. Made cardinal deacon of Sant Angelo in Pescheria by Paschal II. he was employed in various diplomatic missions. Calixtus II. appointed him one of the ambassadors who made peace with the Empire and drew up the
Concordat
  of Worms (1122), and in the following year, with his later enemy Cardinal Peter Pierleoni, he was papal legate in France. On the 13th of February 1130 Honorius II. died, and on that night a minority of the Sacred College elected Paparesci, who took the name of Innocent-H. After a hasty consecration he was forced to take
refuge
  with a friendly noble by the
faction
  of Pierleoni, who was elected pope under the name of Anacletus II. by a
majority
  of the cardinals. Declaring that the cardinals had been intimidated, Innocent refused to recognize their choice; by June, however, he was obliged to flee to France. Here his title was recognized by a synod called by
Bernard
  of Clairvaux at Etampes. Similar action was taken in Germany by the synod of Wurzburg. Ir_ January 1131 Innocent held a personal interview with King
Henry
  I. of England at Chartres, and in March, at Liege, with


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