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Showing posts with label Pope Clement V. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pope Clement V. Show all posts
30 August 2024

The Council of Vienne

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The Council of Vienne (1311-1312; seen here in a painting in 1880 by Paul Lacroix) has been mentioned before, and produced some positive dec...
20 June 2024

Walter Langton

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One of the Keepers of the Wardrobe for five years (1290 - 1295) under Edward I was Walter Langton (1243 - 1321). He used the surname Langt...
18 June 2024

Between King and Archbishop

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Antony Bek (c.1245 - 1311) was from a family of knights. He and his brother Thomas attended Oxford University at Merton College in the late ...
11 February 2023

The Empty Papacy

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The Avignon Papacy, when the French Pope Clement V decided to move the papal headquarters from Rome to Avignon, was not a simple change in ...
20 September 2022

The Western Schism

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When Pope Clement V decided he wanted to live in his home country, France, he moved the papal offices from the Vatican in Rome to Avignon  ...
04 March 2022

What About the Hospitallers?

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  Pope Clement V, who approved the order to arrest all the Templars, had earlier told them to merge with the Hospitallers, since it didn...
03 March 2022

The Temple Inn

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After the Knights Templar were dissolved in 1312, Pope Clement V wanted all their property turned over to the Knights Hospitallers. King Edw...
02 March 2022

The Inner Temple

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Why were two of the compounds for legal training in London named "Inner Temple" and "Middle Temple"? First, let's ex...
02 October 2018

Secret Templar Initiation

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In 1307, Philip IV of France arrested several Templar Knights, accusing them of horrible sins. Some of the worst sins took place during a ...
01 October 2018

Berenger Fredoli and the Rebellious Canons

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Bérenger Fredoli was a Frenchman with a successful religious career. Little is known about his youth, except that he was born in Vérune a...
18 March 2016

The Templars, Absolved

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Everyone knows about the Templars, or Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon. Their avowed goal was to protect travele...
24 November 2015

The Avignon Papacy

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I like to link items in each post to previous posts that offer more info on those items. I have frequently referred to the time when the po...
13 December 2013

The Templars' Bad Luck Day

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(This one may meander a little; just hang on.) A few days after William Tell shot the apple from his son's head in 1307, another si...
14 October 2012

The Bull

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When Philip IV of France convinced Pope Clement V that his campaign against the corruption of the Templars needed to be extended to all Te...
13 October 2012

The Templars in England

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In 1307, on Friday the 13th of October, King Philip of France ordered the head of the Knights of the Temple, Jacques de Molay, arrested alo...