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Reigned from August 29, 1484 to July 25, 1492. Born in Genoa, Italy, in 1432 as Giovanni Battista Cibò; died in Rome, Italy on July 25, 1492. The son of a Roman senator, he took orders and became Bishop of Savona, and of Molfetta, and cardinal. As pope his chief concern was the promotion of peace among Christian princes. He confirmed the legitimacy of the sovereignty of Henry VII in England, opposed the Hussites, attacked those who sold papal Bulls, issued a Bull against witchcraft and lived to see the Moorish power in Spain broken by the conquest of Granada, 1492.