Urban II

noun

1. OdoorOtho, c1042–99, French ecclesiastic: pope 1088–99.

Urban II

/ ˈɜːbən /

noun

1. Urban II?10421099MFrenchRELIGION: clergymanRELIGION: pope original name Odo or Udo. ?1042–99, French ecclesiastic; pope (1088–99). He inaugurated the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont (1095)

Example Sentences

This is all that remains of the church in which Urban II blessed an altar in 1096.

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They fought first upon the question of acknowledging Urban II.

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It led to the organisation of a movement for erecting a magnificent monument to the memory of Urban II.

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Beside the ruins rose, sharply defined and well detached against the summer sky, the colossal statue of Urban II.

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It is useless to investigate the motives which gave Urban II.

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