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Pope Celestine IV ((ラテン語:Caelestinus IV); died 10 November 1241), born Goffredo da Castiglione, was Pope from 25 October 1241 to his death on 10 November of the same year. Born in Milan, Goffredo or Godfrey is often referred to as son of a sister of Pope Urban III, but this claim is without foundation.〔(Genealogie-Mittelalter )〕 Nothing is known of his early life until he became chancellor of the church of Milan (perhaps as early as 1219, certainly in 1223–27). Pope Gregory IX made him a cardinal on 18 September 1227 with the diocese and benefice of San Marco,〔San Marco was a diocese in southern Italy established in 1170.〕 and in 1228–29 sent him as legate in Lombardy and Tuscany, where the cities and communes had generally remained true to the Hohenstaufen emperor, Frederick II. He was dispatched in an attempt to bring these territories around to the papal side, but without success.〔''Lex. der Mittelalters''.〕 In 1238 he was made cardinal bishop of Sabina. The papal election of 1241 that elevated Celestine to the papal chair was held under stringent conditions that hastened his death. The papal curia was disunited over the violent struggle to bring the Emperor and King of Sicily Frederick II to heel. One group of cardinals favored the ambitious schemes of the Gregorian Reform and aimed to humble Frederick as a papal vassal. Frederick, however, controlled as his unwilling guests in Tivoli two cardinals whom he had captured at sea, and in Rome Cardinal Giovanni Colonna was his ally, largely because the curia was in the hands of the Colonna archenemy, the senator Matteo Rosso Orsini. The latter held the consistory immured under his guards in the ramshackle palace of the Septizodium,〔Matthew of Paris, ''Chronica Majora'' Volume IV (ed. H. Luard), p. 169: ''in palatio quod Regia Solis dicitur''....〕 where rains leaked through the roof of their chamber, mingled with the urine of Orsini's guards on the rooftiles. One of the cardinals fell ill and died.〔Robert of Somercotes, an English cardinal, was the one who died during the conclave. 〕 One group of cardinals, which included Sinibaldo de' Fieschi (soon to be Pope Innocent IV) backed a candidate from the inner circle of Pope Gregory IX expected to pursue the hard line with Frederick II. Another group advocated a moderated middle course, not allies of the Hohenstaufen, but keen to reach an end to the Italian war. Overtures to Frederick II, however, were met with the impossible demand that if they wished the cardinals in his hands to return to Rome, they must elect as Pope Otto of St. Nicholas, an amenable compromise figure. Matteo Orsini's candidate, Romano da Porto, who had persecuted scholars at the University of Paris, was considered unaccaptable. The cardinal bishop of Sabina was finally elected Pope Celestine IV by the required two-thirds majority, seven cardinals out of ten, only on 25 October 1241. He occupied the throne for only seventeen days, his only notable papal act being the timely excommunication of Matteo Rosso Orsini.〔. This statement is unsupported by contemporary evidence. In fact, Matteo Orsini continued as Senator of Rome in 1242 and was Senator when Innocent IV (Fieschi) was elected; and his son (the future Nicholas III) was made a cardinal in 1244. Cf. Francesco Antonio Vitale, ''Storia diplomatica de' senatori di Roma'' I (Roma 1791), 108-110; Luigi Pompili Olivieri, ''Il senato romano'' I (Roma 1886), pp. 193-194.〕 He died of wear and age on 10 November 1241 before coronation and was buried in St Peter's. ==Notes== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pope Celestine IV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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