Pope Clement VI buys Avignon outright
1342
The new pope, a polished Limousin nobleman who loved luxury and learning, purchased the city of Avignon from Joanna I of Naples for eighty thousand gold florins. The papacy now owned its exile. Clement immediately began an expansion of the palace and turned Avignon into the most lavish court in fourteenth-century Europe.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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