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PASCHAL III

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 882 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PASCHAL III  ., anti-pope from 1164 to 1168, was elected the successor of Victor IV. on the 22nd of
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April 1164 . He was an aged aristocrat, Guido of
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Crema . Recognized at once by the emperor Frederick I. he soon lost the support of
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Burgundy, but the emperor crushed opposition in Germany, and gained the co-operation of Henry II. of England . Supported by the victorious imperial army, Paschal was enthroned at St Peter's on the 22nd of
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July 1167, and Pope Alexander III., became a fugitive . Sudden imperial reverses, however, made Paschal glad in the end to hold so much as the quarter on the right
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bank of the Tiber, where he died on the loth of September 1168 . He was succeeded by the anti-pope Callixtus III . See A . Hauck, Kirchengeschichte Deutschlands, Bd . IV . (
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Leipzig, 1903, 259-276) ; H . Bohmer in Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie, Bd . XIV., 724 seq.; and Lobkowtiz, Statistik der Papste (
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Freiburg, i .

B . 1905) . (W . W .

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