Editing Pope Honorius IV (section)

== Career ==
In 1261, he was created [[Cardinal Deacon]] of [[Santa Maria in Cosmedin]] by [[Pope Urban IV]], who also appointed him papal [[prefect]] in [[Tuscany]] and [[captain]] of the [[papal army]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Honorius IV |url=https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07459a.htm |access-date=2024-12-24 |website=www.newadvent.org}}</ref> Cardinal Savelli pursued a diplomatic career. [[Pope Clement IV]] sent him and three other cardinals to invest [[Charles of Anjou]] as King of [[Sicily]] at Rome on 28 July 1265. After the long deadlocked vacancy in the papal see after the death of Clement IV, when [[Sede vacante|the see of Rome was vacant]] for three years, he was one of the six cardinals who finally elected [[Pope Gregory X]] "by compromise" (a technical procedure) on 1 September 1271 in a conclave held at [[Viterbo]] because conditions in Rome were too turbulent.

In 1274 he accompanied Gregory X to the [[Second Council of Lyons|Council of Lyon]], where it was established that only four [[mendicant orders]] were to be tolerated: [[Dominican Order|Dominicans]], [[Franciscans]], [[Augustinians]] and [[Carmelites]]. In July 1276, he was one of the three cardinals whom [[Pope Adrian V]] sent to Viterbo with instructions to treat with the German King, [[Rudolph I of Germany|Rudolf I of Habsburg]], concerning his imperial coronation at Rome and his future relations towards Charles of Anjou, whom papal policy supported. The death of Adrian V in the following month rendered the negotiations with Rudolf fruitless.

Savelli became [[Protodeacon]] of the Sacred College in November 1277 and as such, he crowned Popes [[Pope Nicholas III|Nicholas III]] on 26 December 1277 and [[Pope Martin IV|Martin IV]] on 23 March 1281.

According to [[John Julius Norwich]], he was the last pope to be married before ordination.<ref>Norwich, John Julius, ''Absolute Monarchs'', London: 2011, page 196, footnote</ref>