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15 Ιουν 2022 · Learn about when Pope Gregory IX, head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 1227 to 1241, declared war on cats.
The war of 1228–1230 is known as the War of the Keys. Gregory IX and Frederick came to a truce, but when Frederick defeated the Lombard League in 1239, the possibility that he might dominate all of Italy, surrounding the Papal States, became a very real threat.
16 Αυγ 2023 · He has been remembered in history as the medieval pope that declared war on cats. He ordered a mass extermination of felines to keep the devil at bay. It's thanks to Pope Gregory IX that people still believe that black cats are unlucky. Ugo's family, the Conti (counts) di Segni provided nine cardinals and four popes for the Catholic church.
On March 19, 1227, 80-year-old cardinal Ugolino di Segni became Pope Gregory IX. Gregory was a reluctant pontiff- and not just because of his age. For he had inherited the problem of heresies which were blossoming across thirteenth century Christian Europe and challenging the ‘universal’ church.
Join us on a journey through history as we explore Pope Gregory IX's war on cats and its potential connection to the spread of the Black Plague in Europe.
Gregory IX was one of the most vigorous of the 13th-century popes (reigned 1227–41), a canon lawyer, theologian, defender of papal prerogatives, and founder of the papal Inquisition. Gregory promulgated the Decretals in 1234, a code of canon law that remained the fundamental source of.
In the 1230s, Pope Gregory IX declared war on cats, associating them with devil worship. Learn how this unusual proclamation impacted medieval Europe.
