Dependent on Charles of Anjou in nearly everything, the new Pope quickly appointed him to the position of Senator of Rome.Robert Brentano, Rome before Avignon: A Social History of Thirteenth Century Rome (Berkeley-Los Angeles: University of California Press 1990), pp. 96–99; 120–125. Friedrich Bock, "Le trattive per la senatoria di Roman e Carlo d'Angiò", Archivio della Società romana di storia patria 78 (1955), 69–105. Franco Bartolini, "Per la storia del Senato Romano nel secoli XII e XIII," Bullettino dell'Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo e Archivio Muratoriano, 60 (1946), 1–108. Luigi Pompili Olivieri, Il senato Romano I (Roma 1886), pp. 201–202. At the insistence of Charles, Martin IV excommunicated the Eastern Roman Emperor Michael VIII Palaeologus, who stood in the way of Charles's plans to restore the Latin Empire of the East that had been established in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade. He thus broke the tenuous union which had been reached between the Greek and the Latin Churches at the Second Council of Lyons in 1274 and further compromise was rendered impossible.
Dependent on Charles of Anjou in nearly everything, the new Pope quickly appointed him to the position of Senator of Rome.Robert Brentano, Rome before Avignon: A Social History of Thirteenth Century Rome (Berkeley-Los Angeles: University of California Press 1990), pp. 96–99; 120–125. Friedrich Bock, "Le trattive per la senatoria di Roman e Carlo d'Angiò", Archivio della Società romana di storia patria 78 (1955), 69–105. Franco Bartolini, "Per la storia del Senato Romano nel secoli XII e XIII," Bullettino dell'Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo e Archivio Muratoriano, 60 (1946), 1–108. Luigi Pompili Olivieri, Il senato Romano I (Roma 1886) pp. 201–202. At the insistence of Charles, Martin IV excommunicated the Eastern Roman Emperor Michael VIII Palaeologus, who stood in the way of Charles's plans to restore the Latin Empire of the East that had been established in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade. He thus broke the tenuous union which had been reached between the Greek and the Latin Churches at the Second Council of Lyons in 1274 and further compromise was rendered impossible.