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Also Known As Lothar of Segni • Lotario di Segni
Born 1160 or 1161 • Campagna di Roma • Italy
Died July 16, 1216 • Perugia • Italy
Title / Office pope (1198-1216)
Subjects Of Study papal primacy
Role In Albigensian Crusade • Fourth Crusade • Fourth Lateran Council

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Gregory IX consecrating the chapel of St. Gregory, detail of a fresco, 13th century; in the lower church of Sacro Speco, Subiaco, Italy
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Pope Gregory VII, after his expulsion from Rome, laying a ban of excommunication on the clergy “together with the raging king” (Henry IV of Germany), drawing from the 12th-century chronicle of Otto of Freising; in the library of the University of Jena, Germany.
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Sylvester II, detail from the ivory vessel used at the consecration of Otto III, 996; in the Domschatzkammer des Aachener Domes, Aachen, Ger.
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