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Urban IV

Pope
Urban IV
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Papacy began 29 August 1261
Papacy ended 2 October 1264
Predecessor Alexander IV
Successor Clement IV
Personal details
Birth name Jacques Pantaléon
Born c. 1195
Troyes, Champagne, Kingdom of France
Died 2 October 1264(1264-10-02) (aged 69)
Perugia, Papal States, Holy Roman Empire
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Reference style His Holiness
Spoken style Your Holiness
Religious style Holy Father
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Pope Urban IV (Latin: Urbanus IV; c. 1195 – 2 October 1264), born Jacques Pantaléon, was Pope from 29 August 1261 to his death in 1264. He was not a cardinal; only a few popes since his time have not been Cardinals, including Gregory X, Urban V and Urban VI.

Urban IV was the son of a cobbler of Troyes, France. He studied theology and common law in Paris and was appointed a canon of Laon and later Archdeacon of Liège. At the First Council of Lyon (1245) he attracted the attention of Pope Innocent IV, who sent him on two missions in Germany. One of the missions was to negotiate the Treaty of Christburg between the pagan Prussians and the Teutonic Knights. He became Bishop of Verdun in 1253. In 1255, Pope Alexander IV made him Patriarch of Jerusalem.

He had returned from Jerusalem, which was in dire straits, and was at Viterbo seeking help for the oppressed Christians in the East when Alexander IV died. After a three-month vacancy, Pantaléon was chosen by the eight cardinals of the Sacred College to succeed him in a papal election that concluded on 29 August 1261. He chose the regnal name of Urban IV.


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