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MARTIN IV

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 793 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MAR-MEC
MARTIN IV . (Simon Mompitie de Brion),
pope
  from the 22nd of February 1281 to the 28th of
March
  1285, should have been named Martin II. He was born about 1210 in Touraine. He became a priest at Rouen and canon of St Martin's at Tours, and was made
chancellor
  of France by Louis IX. in 126o and cardinal-priest of Sta
Cecilia
  by Urban IV. in 1261. As papal legate in France he held several synods for the reformation of the clergy and conducted the negotiations for the assumption of the crown of Sicily by Charles of Anjou. It was through the latter's influence that he succeeded Nicholas III., after a six-months' struggle between the French and Italian cardinals. The Romans at first declined to receive him, and he was consecrated at Orvieto on the 23rd of
March
  1281. Peaceful and unassuming, he relied completely on Charles of Anjou, and showed little ability as
pope
 . His
excommunication
  of the emperor Michael Palaeologus (Nov. 1281), who stood in the way of the French projects against
Greece
 , weakened the
union
  with the Eastern Christians, dating from the Lyons Council of 1274. He unduly favoured his own countrymen, and for three years after the Sicilian Vespers (Mar. 31, 1282) he employed all the spiritual and material resources at his command on behalf of his patron against Peter of Aragon. He was driven from Rome by a popular uprising and died at Perugia. His successor was Honorius IV. (C. H. HA.)
His registers have been published in the Bibliotheque des ecoles francaises d'Athenes et de Rome (Paris, 1901).
See A. Potthast, Regesta pontif. roman., vol. 2 (Berlin, 1875) ; K. J. von Hefele, Conciliengeschichte, Bd. 6, 2nd ed.; F. Gregorovius, Rome in the Middle Ages, vol. 5, trans. by Mrs G. W. Hamilton (London, 19001902); H. H. Milman, Latin Christianity, vol. 6 (London, 1899) ; W. Norden, Das Papsttum u. Byzanz (Berlin, 1903) ; E. Choullier, " Recherches sur la vie du pape Martin IV.," in Revue de Champagne, vol. 4 (1878); Processo istorico dell' insurrezione di Sicilia dell'
anno
  1282, ed. by G. di Marzo (
Palermo
 , 1882).


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