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, who simply enumerated the justifications for archiepiscopal resignation and left the decision up to Riccus.Pennington, 101 and 106 – 107. The following year (1207), he approved of the marriage (incestuous by

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) of

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and a daughter of

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.Moore, 100. He also did not intervene on the pope's behalf when

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, a ward of the pope, wed

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without papal consent. For this, he received a stiff reprimand from Innocent.

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Sources

*Pennington, Kenneth. ''Popes and Bishops: The Papal Monarchy in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries''. Philadelphia, 1984. *Moore, John C.
Pope Innocent III, Sardinia, and the Papal State.
''Speculum'', Vol. 62, No. 1. (Jan., 1987), pp 81–101. 12th-century births 13th-century deaths People from Cagliari Sardinian Roman Catholic priests 13th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Sicily {{Italy-RC-archbishop-stub