Celestine III
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Celestine III was raised to the papacy at 85.
From Time Magazine Archive
The position of the Church on this question was clearly stated by Pope Celestine III in 1192.
From The Church and the Empire, Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304 by D. J. (Dudley Julius) Medley
Celestine III proved her friend, and finding protestations of no avail, he finally quashed the sentence of the French bishops and declared her the lawful wife of the French King.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante) by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
Ingebiorg and her brother appealed to Pope Celestine III, who declared the sentence of divorce illegal and null.
From The Church and the Empire, Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304 by D. J. (Dudley Julius) Medley
But a pope more stern and bold than Celestine III.,
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 by Robert Black
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