Innocent III
Temporal power
Europe, church history
Church history, middle ages, 600-1500
Papacy
Popes
Church history
Biography
History
Innocent III (r.1198--1216) has been considered the greatest pope of the high Middle Ages: he launched the Fourth Crusade, sent an army against the Albigensians, convened the Fourth Lateran Council, and in his struggle for the supremacy of the spiritual over the temporal power, excommunicated both K…
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