Christians

Decline of Papal Domination: 1216-1309
Key Events:
1291: Fall of Acre, end of Crusades
1302: papal bull Unam Sanctum
1309: beginning of Babylonian Captivity; papacy moved to Avignon, France
Characteristics: Popes continued to make grandiose claims of temporal power but were less and less able to back them up. By the end of the period, the papacy fell completely under French domination.

1301 conflict of Boniface VIII and Philip IV of France concerning control of
clergy, taxation and imprisonment

1302 Boniface VIII: Unam Sanctam Bull papal supremacy over temporal powers

1303 Albert I, king of Germany, recognized as emperor by pope

1303 The pope arrested by Colonna family and then freed by Orsini family.

1303 Bl. Benedict XI Niccolo Boccasino: 191st bishop of Rome. King
Charles I Robert supported, writer of commentaries on Job, Psalms, Matthew,
and Revelation/Apocalypse, a Dominican.

1304 pope makes peace with Philip IV and Frenchmen in conflict with
Boniface VIII.

1305 Clement V Bertrand de Got: 192nd bishop of Rome. He resided at
Lyons, France, giving French control of Church by appointments.

1314 Clement V: Clementines, a collection of writings from Clement V, Bl.
Benedict XI, Boniface VIII, and the Vienne Council

1329 John XXII: Quia vir reprobus (rights of Franciscans to hold property, opposed to the Spiritualists' doctrine that possession was wrong for a monk)

1363 Crusade against Turks

1368 Emperor Charles IV of Constantinople submits to Bl. Urban V and
becoming a Roman Catholic, giving support for Latin churches in Greece.

1378 Clement (VIII) Robert of Geneva becomes the thirty-third anti-pope
He was pro-French.

1378 Great Schism of the Church (1378 to 1417), with Urban VI gaining the support of England, Germany, Italy, Hungry, and the rest of eastern Europe, and Clement gaining the support of France, Naples, Scotland, Burgundy, and Savoy.

"Well it's ONE, TWO, Three, what are we fight'n for? i don't care and I don't give a damn, next stop's the VATICAN. And it's FIVE, SIX, SEVEN open up the pearly gate..." Gate, I think a tunnel. No its a garden, No its a cloud. No, your, wrong, I know you're wrong, No, your wron......

1380 John Wycliffe: Wycliffe's Bible Vulgate into English