Nicholas III reorganizes the papal states
1280
A Roman-born pope set about strengthening the papacy's temporal power in central Italy through diplomacy and nepotism. He also commissioned the rebuilding of Saint Peter's and the Vatican palace, beginning the long construction project that would consume Rome's rulers for centuries. His appointment of family members to key positions established a pattern of papal nepotism that would persist well into the Renaissance and beyond.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.