Avignon Exile (1309-1377)

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Avignon Exile (1309-1377)
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Avignon Exile (1309-1377)

• 1294
• King Philip IV of France forced Pope
• Boniface VIII to pay taxes.
• Pope Boniface VIII refuses to pay taxes King
  Philip IV elected a new pope.

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Avignon Exile

• Clement V --French Pope 1309, moves the papacy to
  Avignon. He faced a fiscal crisis in Avignon.
• In order to relieve the fiscal crisis he utilized
  a number of methods.

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Avignon Exile

• Avignon, France
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?voeDs9xdqbNI

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Avignon Exile

• Dispensations---released a petitioner from
• requirements of canon law.
• Tithes---monies collected from parishioners.
• Indulgences---remissions of the temporal
• punishments for sin. They were given in return
  for
• monetary contributions to papacy.

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Avignon Exile

• Pope Gregory XI---returns the papacy to
• Rome in 1377. He dies soon after he returns
• to Rome.
• Urban VI---was then elected pope he
• served from 1378-1389. However, the
• French did not like Urban VI. This resulted in

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The Great Schism

• 1378-1417

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Great Schism

• Who suffered during this time of crisis in the
• Church?
• ____________________
• And
• ____________________

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Great Schism

• How was the issue resolved?

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Great Schism

• Council of Pisa 1409
• It was convened by the Cardinals of both popes.
  They deposed both of them and elected a third.
• However, there was a problem.
• Does anybody want to guess?

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Great Schism

• Council of Constance
• (1414-1418)
• Germany--Council delegates voted as nations.
• More than half were Italian.
• Result--Pisan and Avignon popes were deposed.
• Council persuaded the Roman pope to resign.

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Great Schism

• Martin V elected pope over all Christians.
• He wanted Rome to become a major capital
• worthy of the papacy. He adopted new
• literary and artistic ideas of the
• Renaissance.
• He started building St. Peters Basilica.