• Thumbnail for Avignon Papacy
    The Avignon Papacy (French: Papauté d'Avignon) was the period from 1309 to 1376 during which seven successive popes resided in Avignon (at the time within...
    33 KB (4,371 words) - 19:04, 14 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Antipope Benedict XIII
    at Avignon. After Gregory's death on 27 March 1378, the people of Rome feared that the cardinals would elect a French pope and return the papacy to Avignon...
    20 KB (2,163 words) - 18:08, 31 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of the papacy
    Viterbo, Orvieto, and Perugia, and lastly Avignon. The return of the popes to Rome after the Avignon Papacy was followed by the Western Schism: the division...
    55 KB (7,442 words) - 16:45, 10 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pope Clement V
    of its members. Clement moved the Papacy from Rome to Avignon, ushering in the period known as the Avignon Papacy. Raymond Bertrand was born in Vilandraut...
    16 KB (1,955 words) - 14:32, 27 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pope Gregory XI
    Pope Gregory XI (category Avignon Papacy)
    Avignon had been an issue since Pope Clement V moved the papacy to Avignon in 1309. From Popes Clement V to Urban V, the popes of the Avignon Papacy had...
    15 KB (1,757 words) - 19:04, 24 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Papal States
    Papal States (category History of the papacy)
    incorporated into the French state during the French Revolution. During the Avignon Papacy, local despots took advantage of the absence of the popes to establish...
    59 KB (5,767 words) - 21:30, 27 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Western Schism
    Western Schism (category Avignon Papacy)
    political allegiances, with the Avignon Papacy being closely associated with the French monarchy. The papacy had resided in Avignon since 1309, but Pope Gregory...
    29 KB (2,709 words) - 18:12, 31 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pope
    Pope (redirect from Papacy)
    power. From 1309 to 1377, the pope resided not in Rome but in Avignon. The Avignon Papacy was notorious for greed and corruption. During this period, the...
    173 KB (19,486 words) - 13:39, 9 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Avignon Cathedral
    domes Avignon Papacy Girard 1958, p. 162. Girard 1958, pp. 163, 166. "Historic Centre of Avignon: Papal Palace, Episcopal Ensemble and Avignon Bridge"...
    6 KB (408 words) - 04:14, 27 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Palais des Papes
    historic center of Avignon, as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, for its outstanding architecture and historical importance for the papacy. The Palais is actually...
    19 KB (2,169 words) - 16:52, 27 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Avignon
    du Grand Avignon, a cooperation structure of 16 communes, had 197,102 inhabitants in 2022. Between 1309 and 1377, during the Avignon Papacy, seven successive...
    74 KB (7,422 words) - 23:27, 5 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Toghon Temür
    Toghon Temür (Mongolian: Тогоонтөмөр; Mongolian script: ᠲᠤᠭᠤᠨᠲᠡᠮᠤᠷ; Chinese: 妥懽貼睦爾; pinyin: Tuǒhuāntiēmù'ěr; 25 May 1320 – 23 May 1370), also known by...
    21 KB (2,331 words) - 22:04, 9 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for John II of France
    England's chancery clerk. Clement VI was the fourth of seven Avignon Popes whose papacy was not contested, although the supreme pontiffs would ultimately...
    29 KB (3,417 words) - 13:56, 31 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of Avignon
    The following is a history of Avignon, France. The site of Avignon has been occupied since the Neolithic period as shown by excavations at Rocher des Doms...
    54 KB (7,222 words) - 01:16, 9 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Antipope Clement VII
    to the papacy as Clement VII (French: Clément VII) by the cardinals who opposed Pope Urban VI and was the first antipope residing in Avignon, France...
    13 KB (1,425 words) - 19:10, 29 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pope John XXII
    Pope John XXII (category Avignon Papacy)
    Clement V, Pope John centralized power and income in the Papacy and lived a princely life in Avignon. John opposed the policies of Louis IV the Bavarian as...
    31 KB (3,839 words) - 04:14, 6 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pope Urban VI
    College of Cardinals. His pontificate began shortly after the end of the Avignon Papacy. It was marked by immense conflict between rival factions as part of...
    17 KB (2,169 words) - 21:22, 5 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pope Benedict XII
    Pope Benedict XII (category Avignon Papacy)
    The Avignon Papacy: The Popes in Exile, 1305-1403. Translated by Bethell, Denis. Faber & Faber. Rollo-Koster, Joëlle (2015). Avignon and Its Papacy, 1309–1417:...
    17 KB (1,940 words) - 21:04, 5 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pope Urban V
    Pope Urban V (category Avignon Papacy)
    the return of the Legation of Bologna to the Papacy, despite the fine words and promises they made in Avignon. On 26 July, Abbot Grimoard and Msgr. Azzo...
    41 KB (5,223 words) - 18:11, 16 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Comtat Venaissin
    Comtat Venaissin (category Avignon Papacy)
    Venasque, which was replaced as capital by Carpentras in 1320. Avignon was sold to the papacy by Joanna I, Queen of Naples and Countess of Provence, in 1348...
    12 KB (1,182 words) - 19:06, 14 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pope Innocent VI
    Pope Innocent VI (category Avignon Papacy)
    Citadel Press. ISBN 9780806523705. Rollo-Koster, Joëlle (2015). Avignon and Its Papacy, 1309-1417: Popes, Institutions, and Society. Rowman & Littlefield...
    8 KB (891 words) - 06:48, 16 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Christianity in the Middle Ages
    the papacy. The conflict was political, rather than doctrinal, in nature. In 1309, Pope Clement V, due to political considerations, moved to Avignon in...
    68 KB (8,991 words) - 00:15, 1 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lateran Palace
    Rome during the Avignon Papacy. Two destructive fires, in 1307 and 1361, did irreparable harm, and although vast sums were sent from Avignon for the rebuilding...
    25 KB (3,055 words) - 11:52, 15 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Châteauneuf-du-Pape AOC
    70-year Avignon Papacy.[citation needed] At the time, wine-growing around the town of Avignon was anything but illustrious. While the Avignon Papacy did much...
    20 KB (2,397 words) - 06:44, 11 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Catholic Church
    reside in the fortified city of Avignon in southern France during a period known as the Avignon Papacy. The Avignon Papacy ended in 1376 when the pope returned...
    243 KB (26,142 words) - 15:19, 9 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pope Clement VI
    Pope Clement VI (category Avignon Papacy)
    Joëlle (2015). "Chapter 2. Clement VI and Rome: Cola di Rienzo". Avignon and Its Papacy, 1309–1417: Popes, Institutions, and Society. NY: Rowman & Littlefield...
    42 KB (5,587 words) - 01:51, 31 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of Rome
    Investiture Controversy, the Papacy did gain considerable influence in the High Middle Ages, but with the Avignon Papacy and the Western Schism, the city...
    148 KB (16,751 words) - 13:45, 10 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Colonna family
    October, allowing France to dominate his weaker successors during the Avignon papacy. The family remained at the centre of civic and religious life throughout...
    17 KB (1,848 words) - 09:47, 13 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vatican City
    functionaries are all Catholic clergy of various origins. After the Avignon Papacy (1309–1377) the popes have mainly resided at the Apostolic Palace within...
    133 KB (12,062 words) - 11:43, 11 June 2024
  • Philip IV of Macedon (died 297 BC) Philip IV of France (1268–1314), Avignon Papacy Philip IV of Burgundy or Philip I of Castile (1478–1506) Philip IV,...
    403 bytes (92 words) - 09:24, 31 December 2023