Pope Honorius IV
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The last pope to take the name Honorius - elected unanimously on the first ballot in 1285, two years before gout and old age ended a pontificate spent navigating Sicily's wars and holding the line on his predecessor's French alliance.
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About this person
Giacomo Savelli was born around 1210, grandnephew to Pope Honorius III, and rose through the Church during decades of papal-imperial struggle. When Martin IV died in 1285, the cardinals chose Savelli without debate or delay - a rare show of consensus in an era of deadlock. As Honorius IV, he inherited a papacy entangled in Sicilian strife, where rival claimants and French ambitions collided, and he worked to preserve papal influence without breaking the pro-French tilt of his predecessor. His reign lasted just two years. He died on 3 April 1287, and no pope since has taken his name.
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