Pope Clement IV
Pope (1265-1268)
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Lived 1190–1268, aged 78France
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A French lawyer who became pope during one of medieval Europe's bloodiest power struggles, steering the Church's war against the Hohenstaufen dynasty while quietly backing two men who would reshape Western thought: Thomas Aquinas and Roger Bacon.
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Born Gui Foucois around 1190, he climbed through the Church ranks as Bishop of Le Puy in 1257, Archbishop of Narbonne two years later, then Cardinal of Sabina in 1261. His papal election in 1265 came after a four-month conclave at Perugia, where cardinals fought over whether to summon Charles I of Anjou — Louis IX's youngest brother — to continue the fight against the Hohenstaufens. Once enthroned, Clement IV became an unlikely sponsor of intellectual revolution: he encouraged Roger Bacon to complete the Opus Majus, a landmark work on optics and scientific method, while also supporting Thomas…
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