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URBAN III., POPE - 19 OCTOBER

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER Saints celebrated on the 19th of October WELCOME! URBAN III., POPE  ⬅️ Saintly Popes - Index Uberto Crivelli reigned 1185-87. He was born at Milan; died at Ferrara, October 19, 1187. Uberto, of the noble Milanese family of the Crivelli, was created cardinal by Lucius III in 1182 and Archbishop of Milan in 1185.  On November 25 of this year Lucius died at Verona, and the archbishop was elected to succeed him on the same day; he was crowned on December 1. This haste was probably due to fear of imperial interference.  Urban inherited from his predecessor a legacy of feud with the great Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, and this was embittered by personal enmity, for at the sack of Milan in 1162 the emperor had caused several of the pope's relatives to be proscribed or mutilated.  It has been noticed that the breach between Lucius III and Frederick coincided with the arrival in Northern Italy (August, 1185) of Constance, the heiress of...