page_title: Henry of Marcy
section_title: Groundwork for the Third Crusade
hierarchical_section_title: Henry of Marcy / Groundwork for the Third Crusade
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Philippe Auguste recevant des messagers du pape l'appelant à la croisade. Enluminure des Grandes Chroniques de France, XIVe siècle. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Français 2813, folio 227 verso.
context_page_description: Blessed Henry of Marcy and then of Clairvaux from 1177 until 1179. He was created Cardinal Bishop of Albano at the Third Lateran Council in 1179.
  Henry was an important figure in the fight against the late twelfth-century movements of Catharism and Waldensianism and took a leading part at III Lateran. He strongly supported the use of force to suppress heresy and a strong alliance between secular and ecclesiastic authority in the use of force.
context_section_description: Towards the end of his life he was offered the papal crown (1187), but he declined it in favour of Gregory VIII. Beginning in 1187 he preached the Third Crusade and was in Liège in March 1188. He did a great deal to mediate between the leaders of the Crusade before his death at Arras, bringing Henry II of England 
   and Philip II of France to reconcile, as well as healing the rift between the Emperor Frederick I and Philip I, Archbishop of Cologne. It was at the Tag Gottes ("God's Day") held in Mainz in 1188 that he induced Frederick to join the Crusade. He was buried at Arras and is considered beatified. The Cistercians celebrate his day on 14 July. Among his surviving works, his letters (Epistolae) and his De peregrinante civitate Dei are published in the Patrologia Latina.
caption: Philippe Auguste receiving messengers from the Pope calling him to the crusade.
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