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Title: Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 5
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: Biography
Publisher: New York : Selmar Hess
Contributing Library: Kelly - University of Toronto

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on pilgrimage. Various other instances of Bernards boldness in rebuking kings, nobles, andeven Popes, might be adduced. His most remarkable appearance as a politicalpeace-maker was in the dispute which took place after the death of Pope Ho-norius II., as to the succession to the popedom. Two rival factions at Rome con-tended for the claims of separate candidates : one a wealthy and worldly, theother a learned and pious, cardinal. Bernard, as we may suppose, supported thecause of the latter, who took the name of Innocent II. At the council ofEtampes, where Louis VI. of France and his nobles were assembled, the monkseloquence prevailed over all the arguments of diplomacy, and the influence ofFrance was pledged to the side of Innocent. Bernard next engaged aid fromHenry I., of England, and Lothaire, the Emperor of Germany. He then pro-ceeded to Milan, where the party of the rival Pope, Anaclete, and his supporter,Conrad, Duke of Suabia, Lothaires antagonist, was strongest. Bernards fame
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