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noun

Odo or Otho, c1042–99, French ecclesiastic: pope 1088–99.

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How to use Urban II in a sentence

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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British Dictionary definitions for Urban II

Urban II

/ (ˈɜːbən) /

noun

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

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