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Pope Innocent III spent a majority of his tenure as Pope (1198–1216) preparing for a great crusade on the Holy Land. His first attempt was the Fourth Crusade (1202–1204) which he decreed by the papal bull Post miserabile in 1198.
The Conquest of Constantinople by the Crusaders: One of the most dramatic moments in the Fourth Crusade.. Post miserabile (Latin: Sadly, after) is an encyclical issued by Pope Innocent III on 15 August 1198 calling for what would subsequently be referred to as the Fourth Crusade.
The final version of Quia maior was issued by Pope Innocent III between 19 and 29 April 1213, [4] as part of his campaign to rally all Christians to join another crusade. [5] Innocent himself was particularly influenced by the writings of Bernard of Clairvaux , whose emphasis on the connection between salvation and military service to Christ is ...
The Albigensian Crusade (French: Croisade des albigeois), also known as the Cathar Crusade (1209–1229), was a military and ideological campaign initiated by Pope Innocent III to eliminate Catharism in Languedoc, what is now southern France. The Crusade was prosecuted primarily by the French crown and promptly took on a political aspect.
The Fourth Crusade (1202–1204) was a Latin Christian armed expedition called by Pope Innocent III. The stated intent of the expedition was to recapture the Muslim-controlled city of Jerusalem , by first defeating the powerful Egyptian Ayyubid Sultanate .
Innocent III, fresco in the Benedictine cloister at Subiaco. In 1198, Lothaire de Segni was elected Pope under the name of Innocent III. He supported the idea that the pope alone possessed full sovereignty (the auctoritas of the Romans), while princes held potestas, a political power granted to them directly by God. According to Innocent III ...
Pope Innocent III (pope 1198–1216) The Byzantine Empire was nearly driven out of Anatolia, which had traditionally provided the bulk of the empire's armies, by the Seljuk Empire in the 1070s. Emperor Alexios I Komnenos (r. 1081–1118) called for military aid from Pope Urban II, who responded by calling the First Crusade (1096–1099 ...
Innocent III died on 16 July 1216 and Honorius III was consecrated as pope the next week. The Crusade dominated the early part of his papacy. [13] The next year, he crowned Peter II of Courtenay as Latin Emperor, who was captured on his eastward journey in Epirus and died in confinement.