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The rich and influential Roman family of the Savelli provided four popes, Benedict II (684–685), Gregory II (715–731), Honorius III (1216–27), the senator Luca Savelli, who sacked the Lateran in 1234, and the senator's son, Honorius IV (1285-87). The family, the signori of Palombrara Sabina, took their name from the rocca of Sabellum, near Albano, which belonged to the counts of Tusculum before it passed to the Savelli. Benedict II was pope from 684 to 685. ... Saint Gregory II, pope from 715 or 716 to February 11, 731, succeeded Pope Constantine, his election being variously dated May 19, 715, and March 21, 716. ... Honorius III, né Cencio Savelli (Rome, 1148 – March 18, 1227 in Rome), was Pope from 1216 to 1227. ... Late Baroque façade of the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, completed after a competition for the design by Alessandro Galilei in 1735 Lateran and Laterano are the shared names of several architectural projects throughout Rome and Vatican City. ... Honorius IV, né Giacomo Savelli (Rome, ca. ... There are communes that have the name Albano in Italy: Albano di Lucania, in the province of Potenza Albano Laziale, in the province of Rome Albano SantAlessandro, in the province of Bergamo Albano Vercellese, in the province of Vercelli This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists... The counts of Tusculum were the most powerful secular noblemen in Latium during the tenth through twelfth centuries. ...


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Pope Honorius IV - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1458 words)
He was born Giacomo Savelli, of the rich and influential Roman family of the Savelli that had provided three popes, Benedict II, Gregory II and his great-uncle, Pope Honorius III.
Savelli studied at the University of Paris, during which time he held a prebend and a canonry at the cathedral of Châlons-sur-Marne.
When Martin IV died 28 March 1285, at Perugia, Cardinal Savelli was unanimously elected pope on April 2 and took the name of Honorius IV.
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