Pope Celestine II
?–1144 CE · Città di Castello
Guido di Castello, a learned Italian cleric from Città di Castello who had studied with Peter Abelard, became Celestine II in 1143. A cardinal experienced in papal diplomacy, he was respected for his learning and moderation. His pontificate lasted barely five months before his death in 1144, too short to leave a substantial mark, though he is noted for lifting the interdict his predecessor had placed on France over a dispute with King Louis VII. His brief tenure opened a period of instability in Rome, as the commune movement and renewed urban unrest soon challenged papal temporal authority in the city.
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Città di Castelloצ׳יטה די קסטלוItaly
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About Città di Castello
Città di Castello is a town on the upper Tiber in the province of Perugia, Umbria, central Italy. It stands on the site of Tifernum Tiberinum, an Umbrian town that allied with Rome in the 3rd century BCE and prospered under the empire. In the Middle Ages it was a bishopric known as Civitas Castelli, and it later came back under papal rule; in the 15th century the Vitelli family dominated the city and patronised artists. Pope Celestine II (d. 1144), born Guido di Castello, may have been born there. The town also had a Jewish community, where Obadiah of Bertinoro, the Mishnah commentator, served as rabbi before setting out for Jerusalem in 1486.
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Bernard of Clairvaux, Pope Gregory VIII, Pope Innocent II, Pope Honorius II
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