Pope Gregory XIV
1535 CE–1591 CE · Somma Lombardo
Born Niccolo Sfondrati near Milan, Gregory XIV was a pious and reserved figure shaped by his friendship with Charles Borromeo. Bishop of Cremona and a participant in the Council of Trent, he was elected with strong Spanish backing. His short pontificate was dominated by intervention in the French Wars of Religion: he excommunicated the Protestant claimant Henry of Navarre and financed Catholic League forces, a policy that deepened Rome's entanglement in French affairs. He also issued reforms against abuses in the Americas and curbed excessive betting on papal elections. Ill health limited his rule, and he died after about ten months.
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About Somma Lombardo
Somma Lombardo, a town in Lombardy, northern Italy. It is linked to the origins of Pope Gregory XIV (Niccolò Sfondrati).
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- Philip Melanchthon· 1497 CE–1560 CE
- Pope Pius IV· 1499 CE–1565 CE
- Pope Marcellus II· 1501 CE–1555 CE
- Heinrich Bullinger· 1504 CE–1575 CE
- Pope St. Pius V· 1504 CE–1572 CE
- Francis Xavier· 1506 CE–1552 CE
- John Calvin· 1509 CE–1564 CE
- John Knox· 1514 CE–1572 CE
- Teresa of Ávila· 1515 CE–1582 CE
- Theodore Beza· 1519 CE–1605 CE
- Pope Urban VII· 1521 CE–1590 CE
- Pope Leo XI· 1535 CE–1605 CE
- John of the Cross· 1542 CE–1591 CE
- Robert Bellarmine· 1542 CE–1621 CE
- Matteo Ricci· 1552 CE–1610 CE
- Richard Hooker· 1554 CE–1600 CE
- Pope Gregory XV· 1554 CE–1623 CE
- Jacobus Arminius· 1559 CE–1609 CE
- Francis de Sales· 1567 CE–1622 CE
- Jakob Böhme· 1575 CE–1624 CE
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- Oda Nobunaga· 1534 CE–1582 CE
- Maharana Pratap· 1540 CE–1597 CE
- Ivan IV the Terrible· 1530 CE–1584 CE
- Murad III· 1546 CE–1595 CE
- Akbar the Great· 1542 CE–1605 CE
- Selim II· 1524 CE–1574 CE
- Bayinnaung· 1516 CE–1581 CE
- Feodor I· 1557 CE–1598 CE
- Boris Godunov· 1552 CE–1605 CE
- Tokugawa Ieyasu· 1543 CE–1616 CE
- Naresuan the Great· 1555 CE–1605 CE
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