Clement IV

American  

noun

1. Guy Foulques, died 1268, French ecclesiastic: pope 1265–68.

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Example Sentences

Persecution and scapegoating were so widespread that in the summer of 1348 Pope Clement IV issued an official statement condemning the violence and stating that Jewish people were just as likely to die from the plague as Christians; the same message was reiterated in two additional statements from the pope that fall.

From Scientific American

John is charged with a surreptitious mission, to carry a scientific and philosophical manuscript, modeled on Bacon’s “Opus Majus,” to Pope Clement IV in Rome.

From New York Times

In 1266, when they were engaged in Marseilles in mortal strife with the Dominicans, the business of persecution would seem to have been neglected, for we find Clement IV. ordering the Benedictines of St. Victor to make provision for extirpating the numerous heretics of the valley of Rousset, where they had a dependency.

From Project Gutenberg

In the thirteenth century Clement IV. had placed this region under the control of the Burgundian Minister, but with the lapse of time his supervision had become nominal.

From Project Gutenberg

Three years’’ tithe of all ecclesiastical revenues in France and Flanders were granted to Charles, and when all this proved insufficient, Clement IV. sacrificed the property of the Roman churches without hesitation.

From Project Gutenberg