{"slug": "pope-innocent-viii", "label": "Pope Innocent VIII", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Innocent_VIII", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q161351", "qid": "Q161351", "description": "pope of the Catholic Church from 1484 to 1492", "entries": 11, "years": 7, "span": [1432, 1492], "span_label": ["1432 CE", "1492 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 6}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 4}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "holy-roman-empire", "label": "Holy Roman Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "austria", "label": "Austria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-catholic-church", "label": "Roman Catholic Church", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ferdinand-i-of-naples", "label": "Ferdinand I of Naples", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pope-alexander-vi", "label": "Pope Alexander VI", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pope-julius-ii", "label": "Pope Julius II", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "charles-viii-of-france", "label": "Charles VIII of France", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "casimir-iv-jagiellon", "label": "Casimir IV Jagiellon", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pope-sixtus-iv", "label": "Pope Sixtus IV", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1432, "year_label": "1432 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "date unknown – Pope Innocent VIII (d. 1492)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361998124#Births", "title": "1432", "revid": 1361998124, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1484, "year_label": "1484 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 29", "text": "August 29 – Giovanni Battista Cybo, Bishop of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, is elected to succeed the late Pope Sixtus IV (who died on August 12) as the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, and takes the regnal name of Pope Innocent VIII as, the 213th pope.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1346941150#July–September", "title": "1484", "revid": 1346941150, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1485, "year_label": "1485 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "January 6", "text": "January 6 – Saint Leopold of Babenburg, who died almost 350 years earlier in 1136, is canonized as a Roman Catholic saint by Pope Innocent VIII. Saint Leopold will be celebrated as the patron saint of Austria in the centuries that follow.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364736343#January–March", "title": "1485", "revid": 1364736343, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1486, "year_label": "1486 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "March 23", "text": "March 23 – After getting into a war with the Kingdom of Naples by siding with rebels in the Barons' Conspiracy, Pope Innocent VIII sends the Papal Legate, Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere (who will become later become Pope Julius II), as an envoy to the Kingdom of France to seek assistance from King Charles VIII. King Charles sends a delegation to Rome two months later, with no resolution made.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369024065#January–March", "title": "1486", "revid": 1369024065, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1486, "year_label": "1486 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "July 12", "text": "July 12 – Pope Innocent VIII issues the papal bull Catholice fidei defensionem, granting plenary indulgences to people who took part in the war of Casimir IV Jagiellon against the Ottoman Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369024065#July–September", "title": "1486", "revid": 1369024065, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1487, "year_label": "1487 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "February 26", "text": "February 26 – At the insistence of Cardinal Rodrigo de Borja Pope Innocent VIII, authorizes a Christian crusade and against the Muslim Moors, to start on September 1 and to be funded for one year.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366465965#January–March", "title": "1487", "revid": 1366465965, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1487, "year_label": "1487 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "May 19", "text": "May 19 – The witch-hunters' manual Malleus Maleficarum, written by Heinrich Kramer with Jacob Sprenger, is approved by Catholic theologians from the University of Cologne and at Speyer in the Holy Roman Empire. The preface states that all readers should know that \"in the year since the Birth of Our Lord 1487, in the fifth indiction, on Saturday, the 19th day of May, at five in the afternoon or thereabouts,\" professors Henricus Institoris and Jacobus Sprenger certified the text on behalf of Pope Innocent VIII. The preface notes that although some preachers of the Word of God claim in sermons \"that sorceresses do not exist\", the authors' intention is \"to alleviate this ignorance\" and to \"exterminate the sorceresses\" by \"appropriate methods of sentencing.\"", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366465965#April–June", "title": "1487", "revid": 1366465965, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1487, "year_label": "1487 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "December 31", "text": "December 31 – Pope Innocent VIII establishes the office of the Secretary of State of the Vatican by approving the apostolic constitution Non Debet Reprehensibile, with 24 apostolic secretaries, the most important being the Secretarius Domesticus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366465965#October–December", "title": "1487", "revid": 1366465965, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1489, "year_label": "1489 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "September 1", "text": "September 1 – King Ferdinand I of Naples is excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church and declared deposed from office by a bull issued by Pope Innocent VIII. King Ferdinand, who had been punished for refusing to pay dues to the Pope, disregards the papal order and rules over Naples for the rest of his life.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364757252#September–December", "title": "1489", "revid": 1364757252, "section": "Events › September–December"}}, {"year": 1492, "year_label": "1492 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 25", "text": "July 25 – Pope Innocent VIII (b. 1432)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366150846#Deaths", "title": "1492", "revid": 1366150846, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1492, "year_label": "1492 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 25", "text": "July 25 – Pope Innocent VIII, leader of the Roman Catholic Church since 1484, dies at the age of 59 from catarrh.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366150846#July—September", "title": "1492", "revid": 1366150846, "section": "Events › July—September"}}]}