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2 unusual facts about Pope Clement


Pope Clement

Pope Clement V (1305–1314) — memorable for suppressing the Knights Templar, and moving papacy to Avignon

Pope Clement VI (1342–1352) — known for being the Pope during the Black Death



see also

Caeca

Caeca et Obdurata, a papal bull promulgated by Pope Clement VIII in 1593, which expelled the Jews from the Papal States

Juan Bautista Aguirre

After the Order of the Jesuits was terminated by Pope Clement XIV in 1773, he settled in Rome under the papacy of Pope Pius VI.

Llanthony Priory

Also as there are letters from Pope Clement III (CSM,i,p. 157-159), between 1185 and 1188, confirming further grants and gifts to the priory from Adam de Feypo and Geoffrey de Cusack in Ireland.

Neri Corsini

Neri Maria Corsini (1685–1770), nephew of Pope Clement XII, made cardinal by his uncle 1730

Papal conclave, 1521–22

The preferred choice of Henry VIII was Thomas Wolsey (for whom he was prepared to spend 100,000 ducats), although Giulio de'Medici (future Pope Clement VII) was also acceptable to him.

Pope Clement IV

In 1267, Pope Clement IV and King James I of Aragon sent an ambassador to the Mongol ruler Abaqa in the person of Jayme Alaric de Perpignan.

Primo visto

A brief poem by the French Humanist Mellin de Saint-Gelais written in 1525 describes Francisco I, Pope Clement VII and Charles V (each involved in a struggle for the possession of Italy) playing a hand of "Prime" (a game similar to Primero and to the "Flux").

Sign of contradiction

Pope Clement feared that many would follow the example of Henry VIII of England who abandoned the Catholic Church.

William Greenfield

When the attack on the Templars in England began in 1308 Greenfield was favourable to them and so refused to take any part in actions against them within the province of Canterbury; he was however present at the Great Council of Vienne in 1312, when Pope Clement V issued an edict dissolving the Order of the Templars.