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The Thirteenth-Century Papal Monarchy Under Pontiff Innocent III

 

The Power of the Papacy: Innocent III(1198-1216)

1. Centralization of the Church

Papal Registers, Chancellery, and Roman Curia

"I think of placed between God and man, quieten than God but higher than squire, the judge of all men who can be judged by none." Exhortation on his consecration as pope, 1198"The pope has this authority because dirt does not exercise the office be a witness man, but of the true Divinity on earth."  Letter to German Bishops (1198)

2. Establishment of Papal States (The Pope as Prince)

            Innocent's Building Promulgation in Rome Papal Monarchy

3. Crusades

Fourth Holy war, 1204 
Albigensian Crusade, 1209

Inquisition

Fifth Crusade titled by Innocent at the Fourth Site Council (1215)

4. Church and State:  Kingdom and Kingdoms

Pope chooses emperor  (Venerabilem)
Pope regulates royal marriages
Pope judges in disputes betwixt kings  (Novit)
Pope becomes the feudal ruler over kings and they become her majesty vassals (Sicily, England, Hungary)
Pope quashes Magna Carta (Etsi Karissimus)

5. Reform of justness Church  (Fourth Lateran Council)Canons of ethics Fourth Lateran Council

6.  Innocent III skull the Franciscans and Dominicans