# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pope-innocent-iv
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:44:51.099Z

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name: "Pope Innocent IV"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Sinibaldo Fieschi was born in Genoa around 1195 and trained in law at Parma and Bologna, earning a reputation as a gifted canonist that brought him to the Roman Curia under Honorius III. Gregory IX made him a cardinal in 1235 and sent him to govern the Ancona. Elected pope in 1243, he inherited a bitter territorial struggle with Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and left Rome the next year to escape imperial assassination plots, settling in France. He returned in 1250 after Frederick's death. On 15 May 1252 he issued the bull Ad extirpanda, authorizing the use of torture against heretics by equating them with common criminals. He died in Rome on 7 December 1254.