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Innocent VIII, né Giovanni Battista Cibo ( 1432 – July 25, 1492), pope from 1484 to 1492, was born at Genoa, and was the son of a man of senatorial rank. His early years were spent at the Neapolitan court, and subsequently he went to Padua and Rome for his education. In the latter city the influence of his friends procured for him, from Paul II the bishopric of Savona, and in 1473, with the support of Giuliano Della Rovere , he was made cardinal by Sixtus IV, whom he succeeded on August 29August 29 is the 241st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (242nd in leap years), with 124 days remaining. Events 1261 Urban IV becomes Pope, the last man to do so without being a Cardinal first 1475 Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between Fran, 1484. Shortly after his coronation he addressed a fruitless summons to ChristendomCorpus Christianum Christendom in the widest sense, refers to Christianity as a territorial phenomenon: those countries where most people are Christians, or nominal Christians, are part of Christendom. In a more significant and meaningful sense, it refers to unite in a crusadeThis article is about the historical Crusades and the extended term "Crusade". For the artillery system, see XM2001 Crusader; for the fighter jet, see F-8 Crusader; for the television series, see Crusade. Historically, the Crusades were a series of severa against the infidelAn infidel is a person without faith in a god. Religious extremists are known to use this as a vague epithet for their enemies, although often not using this exact term. Osama bin Laden often refers to Western nations as "infidel nations," although he hass; the amount of his own zeal may in some degree be estimated from the fact that in 1489Events March 14 The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice. November 29 Arthur Tudor is named Prince of Wales. December 11 Jeannetto de Tassis is appointed appointed Chief Master of Postal Services in Innsbruck, his descendants th, in consideration of a yearly sum of 40,000 ducatThe ducat was a gold coin that was used throughout Europe. It weighed 3. 5 grams of. 986 pure gold. The ducat was introduced by the Republic of Venice in 1284 under the doge (duke) Giovanni Dandolo. The Venetian ducat featured the Doge kneeling before St.s and a gift of the spearhead which had pierced the Saviour's side, he consented to favour the sultanA sultan Arabic ) is an Islamic monarch ruling under the terms of shariah''. The title carries moral weight and religious authority, as the ruler's role was defined in the Quran. The sultan however was not a religious teacher himself. In the Byzantine Emp Bajazet II by detaining his fugitive brother in close confinement in the Vatican. In 1486, Henry VII of England was declared to be the rightful holder of the English crown by the threefold right of conquest, inheritance, and popular choice.
Innocent, in his papal bull "Summis desiderantes" ( 5 December 1484) instigated very severe measures against magicians and witches in Germany; the principles enunciated by him were afterwards embodied in the Malleus Maleficarum ( 1487). It was also he who in 1487 appointed Tomas de Torquemada to be grand inquisitor of Spain -- he was a strong supporter of the Spanish Inquisition; he also urged a crusade against the Waldensians, offering plenary indulgence to all who should engage in it. In 1486, he prohibited, on pain of severe ecclesiastical censures, the reading of the nine hundred propositions of Pico Mirandola.
An important event of his pontificate was the fall of Granada in January 1492, which was celebrated in the Vatican with great rejoicings and earned the king of Spain the epithet "Catholic Majesty." He died July 25, 1492, leaving behind him numerous children (Octo Nocens pueros genuit, totidemque puellas; Hunc merito poterit dicere Roma patrem - "Eight wicked boys born, and just as many girls, so this man could be entitled to be called Father of Rome"), towards whom his nepotism had been as lavish as it was shameless. The unsympathetic chronicler Stefano Infessura provides many lively details. His successor was Alexander VI.
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