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Showing posts with label Pope Gregory X. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pope Gregory X. Show all posts
09 November 2025

Genoa versus Venice, Part 1

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Four times between 1258 and 1381, the rivalry between the maritime republics of Genoa and Venice reached a tipping point that turned into m...
19 June 2025

Teresa Gil de Vidaure

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After James I of Aragon's first wife was annulled and second wife died , it seems he did not seek a third marriage. He had been, howeve...
23 December 2024

Second Council of Lyon

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When the East-West Schism was over 200 years old, Byzantine Emperor Michael VIII Paleologos (1224 - 1282) asked Pope Gregory X to help reun...
25 January 2023

Edward I - Crusader

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In 1271, Edward, Duke of Gascony, went on a continuation of the Eighth Crusade that is sometimes called the Ninth Crusade and sometimes Lord...
16 July 2014

St. Bonaventure

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St. Bonaventure has been mentioned before, writing a biography of Francis of Assisi  and disagreeing with Averroes' definition of the...
11 January 2013

East & West

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Pope Gregory at the Second Council of Lyons The Second Council of Lyons, mentioned yesterday, accomplished many things. It was called by...
10 January 2013

Gregory X

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Today is the anniversary of the death of Pope Gregory X. He has already been mentioned in Daily Medieval, but let's take a closer look a...
15 September 2012

Marco! Polo!

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Today is the 758th anniversary (according to tradition) of the birth of Marco Polo (1254-1324). Son of a wealthy Venetian merchant who tra...