Clement V elected, papacy pulled toward France
June 1305
The Gascon archbishop Bertrand de Got was crowned at Lyon with Philip IV at his elbow, a pope chosen to serve French interests from the start. Clement never saw Rome. Within four years he settled his court at Avignon, beginning the seventy-year 'Babylonian Captivity' that stripped the papacy of its Italian mystique and bound it to the Valois.
In context
Also in 1305 (3 other events on record)
- Rashid al-Din completes the Jami' al-Tawarikh · Middle East · Culture
- William Wallace executed at Smithfield · Europe · Politics
- Alauddin Khalji's market reforms · South Asia · Politics
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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