Innocent IV elected in Anagni
1243
After a twenty-month vacancy, the cardinals elected the Genoese canon lawyer Sinibaldo Fieschi as Innocent IV. He would spend his pontificate in open warfare with Frederick II, at one point fleeing disguised across the Alps to safety in Lyon. His legal mind sharpened the papacy's claim to depose secular rulers, a doctrine that would echo through centuries of church-state conflict in the West.
In context
Also in 1243 (3 other events on record)
- Mongols defeat Seljuks at Kose Dag · Middle East · War
- Innocent IV flees to Lyon to escape Frederick II · Europe · Religion
- Seljuk Anatolia becomes a Mongol vassal · Middle East · Politics
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Era
High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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