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Pope
Appointed Pope
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Avignon in Spain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Appointed Pope
Kept as a prisoner in the papal palace
In 1398 the Kingdom of France withdrew its recognition of the Avignon papacy. Benedict was abandoned by 17 of his cardinals, with only five remaining faithful to him. Benedict's rationale for continuing the rivalry lay in the fact that he was the last living Cardinal created by Gregory XI, the last undoubted Supreme Pontiff
An army led by Geoffrey Boucicaut, brother of Jean Boucicaut, occupied Avignon and started a five-year siege of the papal palace which ended when Benedict managed to escape from Avignon on 12 March 1403, and seek shelter in territory belonging to Louis II of Anjou
An army led by Geoffrey Boucicaut, brother of Jean Boucicaut, occupied Avignon and started a five-year siege of the papal palace which ended when Benedict managed to escape from Avignon on 12 March 1403, and seek shelter in territory belonging to Louis II of Anjou
Provenance
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