Pope Urban III was born with the given name of Umberto Crivelli in the year A.D., and died in A.D. He began his reign as Pope in the year 1185 A.D. and ended his reign in the year 1187 A.D., during the High Middle Ages. Urban III was from Milan, and his papal number is: 172 out of 267 officially recognized Roman Catholic Popes.
Summary: Pope whose reign was overshadowed by tension with Emperor Frederick and the crisis in the Holy Land.
Biography:Urban III governed amid serious tension with the empire and during the mounting emergency that would culminate in the fall of Jerusalem in 1187. His pontificate reveals how papal leadership was increasingly drawn into both European and eastern affairs.
Though his reign was not long, it belonged to a moment of accumulating crisis for Latin Christendom. The papacy had to think simultaneously about imperial rivalry and the defense of the crusader states.
Urban III is remembered as a pope whose government was overtaken by events of major historical consequence.
