Clement IlI (Paulino Scolari, bishop of Praeneste) was
elected
pope in December 1187, and died in March 1191.
He succeeded shortly after his accession in allaying the
discords which had prevailed for half a century between
the Popes and the citizens of Rome, in virtue of an agree-
ment by which the latter were allowed to elect their
magistrates, while the nomination of the governor of the
city remained in the hands of the Pope. He incited
Henry II. of England and Philip Augustus to undertake
the third crusade, and introduced several minor reforms in
ecclesiastical matters.
from the 9th edition (1876) of an unnamed encyclopedia