Innocent IV, in his obsessive policy of destroying the Hohenstaufen, a policy inherited from his predecessor Gregory IX, had apparently worked out an understanding with Manfred, embodied in a treaty of September, 1254, in which the Pope acquired possession of Apulia.
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