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5 unusual facts about Western Schism


Great Schism

The Western Schism, a split within the Roman Catholic Church that lasted from 1378 to 1417

Johann Hiltalinger

At the outbreak of the Great Western Schism, he sided with Pope Clement VI, who made him general prior of the order in September 1379.

Maze of Moonlight

The story picks up two generations after the end of Strands of Starlight during the time of the Western Schism.

Robert E. Lerner

Lerner is currently preparing an edition of a treatise written during the Great Schism of the West and is gathering materials for a biography of the medieval historian Ernst Kantorowicz.

Western Schism

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


Cyril of Constantinople

1295; Telesphorus of Cosenza applied it to the Western Schism and treated it as an utterance of the Holy Ghost.

Palace of the Kings of Majorca

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.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Viseu

After João III (1375), "of good memory", came two prelates, Pedro II and João IV, whose rule was brief on account of the Great Schism, the former being deposed by Pope Urban VI.


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