Urban IV
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Pope Urban IV |
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| Papacy began | 29 August 1261 |
| Papacy ended | 2 October 1264 |
| Predecessor | Alexander IV |
| Successor | Clement IV |
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| Birth name | Jacques Pantaléon |
| Born | c. 1195 Troyes, Champagne, Kingdom of France |
| Died | 2 October 1264 (aged 69) Perugia, Papal States, Holy Roman Empire |
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Papal styles of Pope Urban IV |
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| Reference style | His Holiness |
| Spoken style | Your Holiness |
| Religious style | Holy Father |
| Posthumous style | none |
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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