Pope Martin IV
1210 CE–1285 CE · Tours
Born Simon de Brion in France, Martin IV had served as chancellor of France and cardinal-legate before his election, which Charles of Anjou heavily influenced. As pope he was largely subservient to Charles's interests, a partisanship that proved costly. He excommunicated the Byzantine emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos, shattering the Greek reunion achieved at Lyon. When the Sicilian Vespers (1282) drove the French from Sicily, his furious excommunications and a failed crusade against Aragon damaged papal prestige. Unable to reside securely in Rome, he governed mostly from Orvieto and died at Perugia. Dante placed him in Purgatory among the gluttonous.
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Tours, a city on the Loire in central France. Its 4th-century bishop Martin of Tours founded the monastery of Marmoutier and became one of the most venerated Western saints; Alcuin of York later headed the abbey of St Martin there under Charlemagne.
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- Francis of Assisi· 1181 CE–1226 CE
- Pope Clement IV· 1190 CE–1268 CE
- Clare of Assisi· 1194 CE–1253 CE
- Pope Urban IV· 1195 CE–1264 CE
- Pope Alexander IV· 1199 CE–1261 CE
- Albert the Great· 1200 CE–1280 CE
- Pope Adrian V· 1205 CE–1276 CE
- Pope Bl. Gregory X· 1210 CE–1276 CE
- Pope John XXI· 1215 CE–1277 CE
- Pope St. Celestine V· 1215 CE–1296 CE
- Thomas Aquinas· 1225 CE–1274 CE
- Pope Nicholas III· 1225 CE–1280 CE
- Pope Nicholas IV· 1227 CE–1292 CE
- Pope Boniface VIII· 1230 CE–1303 CE
- Pope Bl. Benedict XI· 1240 CE–1304 CE
- Pope John XXII· 1244 CE–1334 CE
- Meister Eckhart· 1260 CE–1328 CE
- Pope Clement V· 1264 CE–1314 CE
- Gregory of Sinai· 1265 CE–1346 CE
- Duns Scotus· 1266 CE–1308 CE
- Pope Innocent IV· –1254 CE
- Pope Gregory IX· –1241 CE
- Pope Celestine IV· –1241 CE
- Pope Honorius III· –1227 CE
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- Tran Thai Tong· 1218 CE–1277 CE
- Baybars· 1223 CE–1277 CE
- Ghiyas ud-Din Balban· –1287 CE
- Michael VIII Palaiologos· 1223 CE–1282 CE
- Louis IX of France· 1214 CE–1270 CE
- Alexander Nevsky· 1221 CE–1263 CE
- Hulagu Khan· 1217 CE–1265 CE
- Kublai Khan (Emperor Shizu of Yuan)· 1215 CE–1294 CE
- Qalawun· 1222 CE–1290 CE
- Al-Muazzam Turanshah· 1225 CE–1250 CE
- Al-Ashraf Khalil· –1293 CE
- Möngke Khan· 1209 CE–1259 CE
- Jalal ud-Din Firuz Khalji· –1296 CE
- Ramkhamhaeng the Great· –1298 CE
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