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CARDINAL GUALO (fl. 1216)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 648 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CARDINAL GUALO (fl. 1216)  , was sent to England by Pope Innocent III. in 1216 . He supported John with all the
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weight of papal authority . After John's
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death he crowned the infant Henry III. and played an active
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part in organizing resistance to the rebels led by Louis of France, afterwards king Louis VIII . As representing the pope, the suzerain of Henry, he claimed the regency and actually divided the chief power with William Marshal,
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earl of Pembroke . He proclaimed a crusade against Louis and the French, and, after the peace of
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Lambeth, he forced Louis to make a public and humiliating profession of penitence (1217) . He punished the rebellious clergy severely, and ruled the church with an absolute hand till his departure from England in 1218 . Gualo's character has been severely criticized by
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English writers; but his chief offence seems to have been that of representing unpopular papal claims .

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