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5 unusual facts about Guillaume de Nogaret


Guillaume de Nogaret

His name is mainly connected with the quarrel between Philip IV and Pope Boniface VIII.

By the aid of a Florentine spy, Nogaret gathered a band of adventurers and of enemies of the Gaetani (Boniface's family) in the Apennines.

The great Colonna house, at bitter feud with the Gaetani, was his strongest ally, and Sciarra Colonna accompanied Nogaret to Anagni, Boniface's birthplace.

Sciarra Colonna

Sciarrillo Colonna and Guillaume de Nogaret (lawyer and royal advisor of Philip IV) were to arrest the pope and bring him to France to stand trial, but this attempt failed.

Unam sanctam

On 7 September 1303, the king's advisor Guillaume de Nogaret led a band of two thousand mercenaries on horse and foot.



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