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Or Matthew Paris. D. 1259, English historian, a monk of St. Albans. He became the historiographer of the convent after the death (c.1236) of Roger of Wendover. The first part of his Chronica majora. [great chronicle], a history of the world, is largely a reworked version of Wendover's chronicle. However, the second part, from 1235 to 1259, is original and valuable because its material was ...

Kings of the Árpád dynasty in the Hungarian kingdom. Béla I. . Born 1016; died 1063. Ruled from Dec. 6, 1060. Béla II the Blind. . (Vak). Born 1108; died Feb. 13, 1141. King from 1131. In 1112 he was blinded on the order of King Kálmán, his uncle. He seized part of Dalmatia with the city of Split (1133) and subordinated Bosnia (1137). Béla III. . Born 1145; died Apr. 23, 1196. King from ...

Robert.? 1175--1253, English prelate and scholar; bishop of Lincoln (1235--53). He attacked ecclesiastical abuses and wrote commentaries on Aristotle and treatises on theology, philosophy, and science

... n.) A court or tribunal for the examination and punishment of heretics, fully established by Pope Gregory IX. in 1235. Its operations were chiefly confined to Spain, Portugal, and their dependencies, and a part of Italy.(n.) The finding of a jury, especially such a finding under a writ of inquiry.(n.) The act of inquiring; inquiry; search; examination ...

nounPope who declared that Catholic princes are subject to the pope in temporal as well as in theological matters (1235-1303. ).synonyms: Benedetto Caetani