Gregory IX

noun

Ugolino di SegniorUgolino of Anagni, c1143–1241, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1227–41.

Gregory IX

Gregory IX?11481241MItalianRELIGION: pope original name Ugolino of Segni . ?1148–1241, pope (1227–41). He excommunicated and waged war against Emperor Frederick II

Elias was a man of extraordinary ability, the friend both of Gregory IX.

She died at the age of twenty-four, and was canonized as a saint by Gregory IX.

On the other hand, the new pope was free from the predispositions which the long strife had engendered in Gregory IX.

He was nephew of Gregory IX., which throws some light upon the practices which have just been described.

We- 368 - must simply remember that his work might with justice be called the legend of Gregory IX.

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