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Paschalis owed his rapid success to Norman swords and to the irresistible power of gold, but his strength was dissipated in endless petty wars against petty tyrants. The popes of this age were forced, like all other bishops, to do battle for their temporal dominion against a thousand greedy enemies, and if Paschalis the gentle-natured monk reflected on the part played by the sacred overseer of the Church in the constant struggle for temporal property, he must have sighed for the apostolic times when the bishops possessed nothing on earth beyond the things of heaven.
We shall enumerate neither the various fortresses nor the barons on whom the Pope waged war. In Peter Colonna, however, the most celebrated noble The family of mediazval Rome makes its first appearance on the stage Of history in the year 1 The name of the family owes its origin not to Trajan's famous column, which figures in the Colonna coat of arms, but to a castle in the Latin mountains which still towers above the Via Labicana.2 This little fortress.
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