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CLEMENT IX

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 486 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CLEMENT IX  . (Giulio Rospigliosi) was born in 1600, became successively auditor of the Rota, archbishop of Tarsus in partibus, and cardinal, and was elected pope on the loth of
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June 1667 . He effected a temporary adjustment of the Jansenist controversy; was instrumental in concluding the peace of
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Aix-la-Chapelle (1668); healed a long-
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standing breach between the
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Holy See and
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Portugal; aided Venice against the
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Turks, and laboured unceasingly for the
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relief of Crete, the fall of which hastened his
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death on the 9th of
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October 1669 . See Oldoin, continuator of Ciaconius, Vitae et res gestae summorum Pontiff . Rom . ; Palazzi, Gesta Pontiff . Rom . (Venice, 1687-1688), iv . 621 seq . (both contemporary) ; Ranke, Popes (Eng. trans . Austin), iii . 59 seq.; and v .

Reumont, Gesch. der Stadt Rom, iii . 2, 634 seq . (T . F .

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