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- The fourteenth century heralded a new stage in the history of the Church, when papal rule was forced to find new patterns of cooperation with emerging national states. The Avignon pontificate of Clement V (1305-14) found a compromise among conflicting interests, and thus paved the way for the Church in the modern era.
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Apr 16, 2024 · Clement V was the pope from 1305 to 1314 who, in choosing Avignon, France, for the papal residence—where it flourished until 1377—became the first of the Avignonese popes. Bishop of Comminges from March 1295, he became archbishop of Bordeaux in 1299. He was elected pope through the manipulation of.
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Philip IV The Fair of France's understanding of his role as God's representative on earth ran counter to the teaching of the Catholic Church, strongly upheld by Boniface VIII and his successor, Benedict XI that the Pope was God's representative in both the temporal and the spiritual realm. The papal coronation included the words, "Know that thou ar...
On October 13, 1307, came the arrest of hundreds of the Knights Templar in France, an action apparently financially motivated and undertaken by the efficient royal bureaucracy to increase the prestige of the crown. Philip IV was the force behind this ruthless move, but it has also tarnished the historical reputation of Clement V. From the very day ...
In March 1309, the entire papal court settled at Avignon, which was not then part of France but an imperial fief held by the King of Sicily. The removal of the Papacy to Avignon was justified at the time by French apologists on grounds of security, since Rome, where the dissensions of the Roman aristocrats and their armed militia had reached a nadi...
Clement V's pontificate was also a disastrous time for Italy. The Papal States were entrusted to a team of three cardinals, but Rome, the battleground of the Colonna and Orsini factions, was ungovernable. In 1310, the Emperor Henry VII (1308–13) entered Italy, established the Visconti as vicars in Milan, and was crowned by Clement V's legates in Ro...
Clement intervened in a dispute between Edward I of England and the Archbishop of Canterburry, supporting the former and suspending the latter. He excommunicated Robert Bruce in 1306, for murdering his rival, John Comyn during mass. He also deposed several Scottish bishops supporting a national uprising against English rule.
Other remarkable incidents of Clement V's reign are his violent repression of the Fra Dolcino, a reformist movement which he considered a heresy, in Lombardy, and his promulgation of the Clementine Constitutions in 1313. The Dolcino opposed the hierarchy, the feudal system, supported individual freedom and preached equality and common ownership of ...
In the early 14th century, Pope Clement V made several controversial decisions that dramatically impacted the Catholic Church. Born around 1264, Clement was elected pope in 1305. During his papacy, he famously moved the Holy See to Avignon and initiated the suppression of the Knights Templar.
May 29, 2018 · Clement V took important financial and political actions as pope. He introduced the annates, a lucrative papal tax, and thus refilled the papal treasury; but he spent the money unwisely, much of it on his relatives and on loans to France and England.
Jul 2, 2015 · Pope Clement V, having whored the Church to the King of France as thoroughly as he possibly could, died peacefully in the spring of 1314. Philip died later that year, to the relief of just about everybody.
The Holy See Pontiffs Clement V [ AR - DE - EN ... IT - PT] Clement V 195th Pope of the Catholic Church Beginning Pontificate: 5.VI, 14.XI.1305:
- 5.VI, 14.XI.1305
- 20.IV.1314
- Villandraut (Gironde)
- Bertrand de Got
In Clement V, Sophia Menache tries to rehabilitate the reputation of Pope Clement V (r. 1305–1314), the first of a string of fourteenth century popes who governed the church from southern France instead of Rome.
