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Historical person
c. 1160s–1216
Innocent III was pope from 1198 to 1216 and one of the most powerful medieval advocates of papal authority. His pontificate was involved in the Fourth Crusade, the Albigensian Crusade, disputes over royal succession and the Fourth Lateran Council.
In Cecelia Holland’s The King’s Road, Pope Innocent III claims guardianship, the German captain Diepold governs him strictly, and competing factions at Palermo regard the boy as the key to the kingdom.
Series
The Kinghood books are two independent medieval novels linked by their examination of contested rule rather than by recurring characters. Hammer for Princes follows an experienced Anglo-Norman earl through the final phase of the Anarchy, when King Stephen and the future Henry II struggle over England. The King’s…
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