Innocent XI

Innocent XI (1611 – 1689) was Pope, the head of the Catholic Church, and ruler of the Papal States from 21 September 1676 until his death on 12 August 1689. He succeeded Clement X, and is celebrated for his contest with Louis XIV, and as giving occasion thereby to a protest of the Gallican clergy, and a declaration on their part of what is known as the Gallican Liberties, and for a further contest he had with Louis in regard to certain immunities claimed, to the scandal of the Church, by foreign ambassadors residing in Rome, an interference which Louis resented on behalf of his representatives among them, but, as it happened in vain.

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Innovation, Inns of Court, Innsbruck, Ino, Inoculation