Clement IV
Guy Foulques, a Provençal lawyer and adviser to Louis IX, entered the clergy after being widowed and was pope from 1265 to 1268. He invested Charles of Anjou with the Kingdom of Sicily; Charles defeated Manfred at Benevento in 1266 and Conradin at Tagliacozzo in 1268.
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Key details
Birth: poco antes de 1200 Approximate
Death: 1268 Documented
Role: Pope
Dynasty: Foulques · ES
Territories: Papal States (ES)
Recorded relationships
No direct relationships are recorded for this person.
Sources for this profile
- Deutsche Nationalbibliothek · GND authority record · Klemens IV., Papst
- Treccani · Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani
- Encyclopaedia Britannica
Biographical and contextual references in their original language. Sources and methodology.
Evidence for this profile
3 recorded claims · 0 without a claim-specific source. Context references do not by themselves verify every fact.
Dates (2/2 with a precise source)
- BirthApproximate
poco antes de 1200
The DBI places his birth shortly before 1200; the year has been corrected and retained as approximate.Recorded alternatives: 1190 (the Atlas’s previous value, for which no specific source was located) - DeathDocumented
1268
The authority record gives the death as 1268.
Governments (1/1 with a precise source)
- GovernmentDocumented
Pope · Papal States · 1265–1268
The authority record dates this office to 1265–1268.
Biographical and contextual references (3)
Editorial history
- 2026-10-12 · Claim registry added; existing historical data kept. Specific sourcing remains to be reviewed.
- 2026-10-08 · Claim registry added; existing historical data kept. Specific sourcing remains to be reviewed.
- 2026-10-04 · Claim registry added; existing historical data kept. Specific sourcing remains to be reviewed.
- 2026-10-04 · Claim registry added; existing historical data kept. Specific sourcing remains to be reviewed.
- 2026-10-03 · Claim registry added; existing historical data kept. Specific sourcing remains to be reviewed.
- 2026-09-30 · The duchy is limited to Dijon and Autun; each other fief now enters the map only under its dated ruler. John III of Namur and the Nevers/Rethel branch were added. The previous shape combined later counties and unrelated lands as if all belonged to the duchy from 1363.
- 2026-09-28 · Claim registry added; existing historical data kept. Specific sourcing remains to be reviewed.
