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SCRIPTURE AND THE FATHERS. 101
the successor of Alexander, ordered a croisade,
with the usual encouragements, to be preached
Manfnd. But this scheme being attended
with little
success, he bestowed that kingdom
on Charles of Anjou, w^ho accepted the donation.
Clement IV. succeeding Urban, ratified the
deed of his predecessor ; and in 1 266^ Charles
was crowned King of Sicily, on condition that he
should pay every year a stipulated tribute to that
Pope and his successors.
Charles, having defeated
and killed his rival, took possession of his new
dominions, and was, by the Pope, declared Lieutenant-general
of the em.pire in Italy. Nicholas
IN., however, soon after joined with the King
of Arragon to dispossess Charles ;
and this produced
the cruel massacre of the French on
Easter-eve, known by the name of the Sicilian
vespers.
But the succeeding Pope opposed the
King of Arragon, forbade him to assume the
title of king, deprived him of his dominions,
and put him under an
interdict.—Many more
exam.ples, if necessary, might be produced from
the histories of these times ;
but these are sufficient
to show what supremacy has been claimed
by Popes,
and how little they have imitated the
conduct of that Master who said, *' My king-
''
dom is not of this w^orld *."
In the course of these contendings between
* John, xviii. ^6,
the church and the world, princes frequently discovered