During nearly the whole of his pontificate Eugene was unable to reside in Rome. Hardly had he left the city to be consecrated in the monastery of Farfa, when the citizens, under the influence of Arnold of Brescia - the great opponent of the pope's temporal power - established the old Roman constitution, and elected Giordanao to be "patrician". Eugene appealed for help to Tivoli and to other cities at feud with Rome, and with their aid was successful in making such conditions with the Roman citizens as enabled him for a time to hold the semblance of authority in his capital; but as he would not agree to a treacherous compact against Tivoli, he was compelled to leave the city in March 1146. He stayed for some time at Viterbo, and then at Siena, but went ultimately to France.
On hearing of the fall of Edessa, he had, in December 1145, addressed a letter to [Louis VII of France]?, calling on him to take part in another crusade; and at a great diet held at Spires in 1146 the emperor Conrad III also, and many of his nobles were, by the eloquence of Bernard, incited to dedicate themselves to the holy warfare. After holding councils at Paris, Rheims, and Trèves, Eugene, in 1149, returned to Italy, and took up his residence at Viterbo. In 1150, through the aid of the king of Sicily, he was again able to enter Rome, but the jealously of the republicans soon compelled him to retire.
The emperor [Frederick Barbarossa]? had promised to aid him against his revolted subjects, but the death of Eugene at Tivoli, June 7, 1153, prevented the fulfilment of the engagement. Though the citizens of Rome were jealous of the efforts of Eugene to assert his temporal authority, they were always ready to recognise him as their spiritual lord, and they besides deeply reverenced his personal character. Accordingly he was buried at the Vatican with every mark of respect, and his tomb soon acquired an extraordinary fame for miraculous cures.
Original text from the 9th edition (1879) of an unnamed encyclopedia Original referred to him as Eugenius - modified to match spelling on Popes list.