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18 unusual facts about Council of Constance


Aarne Ruben

He goes to the pilgrimage into the Council of Constance and become a witness of the condemning and burning of Jan Hus.

Antipope Benedict XIV

In 1417, the Council of Constance resolved the Schism, proclaiming Martin V the new Pope and demanding that Benedict XIII renounce his claim.

Catherine of Alençon

Louis travelled in early 1415 as head of the French embassy to the Council of Constance.

Catherine of Lancaster

Because of Catherine's opposition to Ferdinand, she supported the position of Antipope Benedict XIII and initially spoke up against the Council of Constance (1414–1418).

Conciliarism

The Council of Constance (1414–1418) successfully ended the Schism by deposing two Popes (John XXIII and Benedict XIII) – the third Pope abdicated – and electing a successor in Martin V.

The schism inspired the summoning of the Council of Pisa (1409), which failed to end the schism, and the Council of Constance (1414–1418), which succeeded and proclaimed its own superiority over the Pope.

Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg

At the Council of Constance (30 April 1415) Sigismund granted Frederick the titles of Margrave and Prince-elector of Brandenburg.

Guillaume Fillastre

Fillastre took a very important part in the Council of Constance, where he and Cardinal d'Ailly were the first to agitate the question of the abdication of the rival claimants (February, 1415).

La Juive

Scribe was writing to the tastes of the Opéra de Paris, where the work was first performed – a work in five acts presenting spectacular situations (here the Council of Constance of 1414), which would allow a flamboyant staging in a setting which brought out a dramatic situation which was also underlined by a powerful historical subject.

Marcus Manilius

The unknown text was rediscovered by the humanist Poggio Bracciolini somewhere not very far from Constance, during a break in the sessions of the Council of Constance that he was attending, in 1416 or 1417.

Nikolaus von Dinkelsbühl

He represented Duke Albert V of Austria at the Council of Constance (1414–18) and the University of Vienna in the trial of Thiem, dean of the Passau cathedral.

Palace of the Kings of Majorca

On 20 September 1415, the Emperor met with Pope Benedict XIII at the palace with the King Ferdinand I of Aragon and the delegations of the Counts of Foix, Provence, Savoy, Lorraine, the embassy of the Roman church for the Council of Constance, and embassies from the Kings of France, England, Hungary, Castille and Navarre.

In 1415, the Holy Roman Emperor, Sigismund of Luxemburg, organised a European summit in Perpignan, to convince the Avignon Antipope Benedict XIII to resign his office and take to an end the Western Schism through the Council of Constance.

Papal resignation

Before resigning, he formally convened the already existing Council of Constance and authorized it to elect his successor.

Pier Paolo Vergerio the Elder

Later he became canon of Ravenna and took part in the Council of Constance in 1414.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Cassano all'Jonio

Belforte Spinelli (1432), who while yet a layman assisted at the Council of Constance, under Pope Martin V was sent on important missions, and later renounced the world and retired to Venice, leaving his rich library to the Collegio Spinelli of Padua;

Silius Italicus

Petrarch's Africa was composed independently of the Punica, as the manuscript was discovered by Poggio Bracciolini in 1417 at St. Gall during the Council of Constance.

Ulrich of Richenthal

Ulrich of Richenthal (died c. 1438) was a chronicler of the Council of Constance.


Heinrich von Ahaus

He accompanied Johann Vos of Huesden, rector of Windesheim, to the Council of Constance (1414-18), to refute the charges lodged against the Brethren by the Dominican Mathüus Grabow, and of which they were triumphantly cleared.

Max Lenz

In 1874, he finished his dissertation about the Alliance of Canterbury and its significance for the Hundred Years' War and the Council of Constance.

Western Schism

Driven by politics rather than any theological disagreement, the schism was ended by the Council of Constance (1414–1418).