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CELESTINE II

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 600 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CELESTINE II  ., pope in 1143-1144 . Guido of Citta di Castello (Tiferno), born of noble Tuscan
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family, able and learned, studied under Abelard and became a cardinal priest . Elected the successor of Innocent II. on the 26th of September 1143, he died on the 8th of March following . He removed the interdict which Innocent had employed against Louis VII. of France . At the time of his
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death he was on the verge of a controversy with Roger of Sicily . See A . Certini, Vita (Foligno, 1716) ; M . Bouquet, Recueil
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des historiens des Gaules (Paris, 1738 ff.), tome 15, 408-411; Migne, Patrologiae cursus completus, 179, 765-820; P . Jaffe, Regesta Pontificum Romanorum, 2nd ed. vol. ii . (Lipsiae, 1888), I ff.; Wetzer and Welte, Kirchenlexikon, 2nd ed. vol. iii . (
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Freiburg, 1884), 578 ff.; Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopiidie, 3rd ed. vol. iv . (
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Leipzig, 1898), 201 .

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