Boniface VIII elected after Celestine's resignation
1294
Benedetto Caetani was elected pope after the abdication of the hermit Celestine V. A trained canon lawyer with an extravagant sense of papal authority, he would soon clash with Philip IV of France in a confrontation that would damage the papacy's prestige for a century. His bull Unam Sanctam declared that submission to the pope was necessary for salvation, the most extreme claim of papal supremacy ever issued.
In context
Also in 1294 (3 other events on record)
- Kublai Khan dies at Dadu · East Asia · Politics
- Celestine V resigns the papacy · Europe · Religion
- Japanese Kamakura shogunate under financial strain · East Asia · Politics
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Era
High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.