Pope Alexander III
Pope of the Catholic Church from 1159 to 1181 · Italy · Religious Figures · Lived 1100 to 1181 · aged 81
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Something wrong?He spent most of his papacy locked in a war he couldn't afford to lose - not against heretics or pagans, but against an emperor who kept installing rival popes in Rome while Alexander ruled the Church from exile.
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Born Roland in Siena sometime in the early 1100s, he rose through the Church and was elected pope on 7 September 1159 - but the election was contested. Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa backed a series of rivals, forcing Alexander to spend much of his pontificate outside Rome itself. He rejected an offer from Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos to heal the East-West Schism, sanctioned the Northern Crusades, and convened the Third Council of the Lateran. He canonized both Thomas Becket and Bernard of Clairvaux. The northern Italian city of Alessandria still carries his name. He died on 30 August 1181, having outlasted the rivals and held the office for twenty-two years.
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