Talk:1241 papal election

Christ's Faithful People
I deleted the references to this source, on the grounds that it is partisan and sectarian, as well as misleading. Vicedomino (talk) 21:47, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

Henderson, 1894
"It is likely that the cause of death was dysentery, ..." I have added to the footnote a warning that this is pure speculation−with no support in contemporary accounts. It also contradicts the paragraph immediately above, which states that the pope-elect was old and ill already−which is vouched for in the contemporary accounts. Moreover, Henderson's expertise, Germany in the Middle Ages, is tangential to papal elections, and has little weight, if any, as an authority. Vicedomino (talk) 21:58, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

History of Popery
This book is a religious tract, from the point-of-view of English Protestantism. The quotation at n. 16, ...a "feeble, ignorant, old fanatic" who was "destitute of any other qualification"... is the author's own polemical thrust, unsupported by evidence. I propose to delete it. Vicedomino (talk) 06:00, 25 November 2015 (UTC)