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Urban III

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noun

  1. Uberto Crivelli, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1185–87.


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Samson obtains from Pope Urban III the privilege of giving the episcopal benediction. p.

From The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond: A Picture of Monastic Life in the Days of Abbot Samson by Brakelond, Jocelin de

"What a disgrace, what an affliction," cried Pope Urban III, "that the jewel which the second Urban won for Christendom should be lost by the third!"

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante) by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

Pope from 1088 to 1099, warm promoter of the first Crusade; Urban III.,

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin

Lucius died, but his successor, Urban III, was yet more irreconcilable.

From The Church and the Empire, Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304 by Medley, D. J. (Dudley Julius)

Pope Urban III reiterated the declaration that the passage in St. Luke forbade the taking of any interest whatever.

From History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom by White, Andrew Dickson

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