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CELESTINE IV

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 600 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CELESTINE IV  . (Godfrey Castiglione), pope in 1241, son of a
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sister of Urban III . (1185-1187), was archpriest and chancellor at Milan . After Urban's
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death he entered the Cistercian monastery at Hautecombe in Savoy . In 1227 Gregory IX. created him cardinal priest of St Mark's,and in 1233 made him cardinal bishop of Sabina . Elected to succeed Gregory on the 25th of
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October 1241, he died on the loth of November, before consecration, and was buried in St Peter's . See A . Potthast, Regesta Pontificum Romanorum, vol. i . (Berlin, 1874), 940 f .

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