Innocent V
Innocent V
(Peter of Tarantasia, also called Peter of Champagni or of Champagniaco) was born at Moustier, in Savoy, in 1225. He was elected pope January 20, 1276, as successor of Gregory X. He was a member of the order of Preaching Friars, into which he had entered quite young, and where he had acquired a great reputation. He succeeded Thomas Aquinas as professor of theology in the University of Paris; was made archbishop of Lyons in 1272, and afterwards bishop of Ostia and grand penitentiary. As soon as he became pope he applied himself to the task of restoring peace to Italy, which was then divided into two contending factions, under the leadership of the Guelphs and the Ghibellines (q.v.), and in this he measurably succeeded. He was also on the eve of inducing the Greek emperor, Michel Palaeologus, to confirm the act of union between the Greek and Roman churches, drawn up in the Council of Lyons, when he died June 22,1276, having occupied the papal throne only five months. He wrote commentaries Super iv libros Sentniarum (Toulouse, 1652, 3 vols. fol.): — Super Pentateuchum; super Lucam; super Epistolas Pauli (Cologne, 1478; Antw. 1617, fol.); and various treatises: De Unitate Forme; De Materia Caeli; De Alternitate Formae; De Intellectu et Voluntate; and some other MS. works, the titles of which are given by Quetif, Scriptores Ordinis Preadicatorum (Paris, 1719, 2 vols. fol.). See Labbe, Concilia, 11, 1007: Ciaconius, Vitae et res gestce Pontifcum Romanorum, 2, 203; Fleury, Hist. Ecclesiastique, 1. 18:chap. 86; Duhesne, Hist. des Papes, 2, 208; Muratori, Rerum Ittalicarum Scriptores, 3, 605; Bower, Hist. of the Popes, 6, 301,302; Herzog, Real-Encyklop. 6, 669; Hoefer, Nouv. Biogr. Géneralé, 25, 908; Mosheim, Eccles. Hist. cent. 13:pt. 2, ch. 2.
