#clement v

[stardust-pond]

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[bibliophilly]

Nick Herman on Instagram: “Clement V, Constitutiones clementinae, mid-14th c. copy produced in Southern France (Provence or Toulouse?): one of @brynmawrcollege ‘s…”

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[divusborgia]

Pope Callisto III reaffirmed the idea of resuming the Crusade of the Church and of Christian principles for the conquest of Constantinople against "the anger of the Turks" from the point where Niccolò V had to suspend it for the coming of death. But he, like his predecessor, despite the preaching and the many ambassadors sent everywhere, had to deal with the shameful indifference of the european rulers against a new venture against infidels. Those rulers were solely committed to defending their interests, and did not consider the Turks threatening their own Western civilization. Charles VII of France long forbade the publication of the Crusade Bull issued in his kingdom on May 15, 1455, as well as forbidding the collecting of the tithes. The same thing happened in other countries. There were those who, like the Duke of Burgundy, collected them but put them in their pockets. In short, no one felt the urgency of a new holy war. Callisto continued to preach and prepare reconciliation with the spirit of a Spanish whose country had for centuries suffer the invasion of Muslims. He was building a fleet of sixteen triremes in Rome, on the Tiber. Ripa Grande became a real shipyard among the amazement of the population. And he, with tears in his eyes for emotion, looked away in the distance from the windows of his palace, the ships coming up from day to day. If Niccolò, his pale predecessor, had been a humanist among humanists, Callisto showed more interest in opposing Ottoman danger than in the diffusion of culture, so much to sell away a large number of precious volumes of the Vatican Library along with many objects of St. Peter's treasure to arm the fleet and drive out the infidels from Europe. Or he deprived those books of their gold-plated ornaments, causing the wrath of the curial letterati. He tore from an ancient, marble sarcophagus, discovered by accident near St. Peter's, all valuable objects, without worrying that the tomb probably contained the remains of Emperor Constantine and one of his sons. He melted the gold and silver found in the grave. From his canteen he banished the silverware saying, "I'm fine with terracotta dishes". The money was never enough, and then the pontiff, with a bull, imposed tithes and promised indulgences to anyone who had somehow helped the anti-Turks enterprise under the exhortation of talented preachers. Source: Antonio Spinosa - La saga dei Borgia

[thetemplarknight]

In the fourteenth century, the papacy moved out of Rome to France. Clement V was the first pope to be based in Avignon beginning the building of a palace that still dominates the city centre. It was Clement who would bend to the will of the King of France, Philip, and banned the Knights Templar. He was the pope who sent out orders to all the Christian rulers of Europe to round up the knights and seize their assets.

Clement’s immediate successors continued to reign from Avignon and enlarged the palace but by the end of the 1300s, the popes had returned to Rome. Gradually, the huge Gothic pile that had been erected began to decay. Decorations were ripped out and ornaments spirited away. The French revolution resulted in some damage inspired by anti-clericalism and then in the nineteenth century, the building became a barracks with a false floor installed.

Repairs were undertaken and some pseudo-Gothic additions, imaginings of what the palace would have looked like at its height. Regardless of all the indignities the palace has suffered, it is still a glorious sight today. I visited Avignon as well as nearby Arles and Nimes this year. Some images of the palace for you to view here.

  Avignon – seat of the pope who crushed the Templars In the fourteenth century, the papacy moved out of Rome to France. Clement V was the first pope to be based in Avignon beginning the building of a palace that still dominates the city centre.

[poniatowskaja]

At the king’s request, Clement V issued on January 7, 1307 a dispensation addressed to Jeanne and the young Philip to remove the bars of kinship and common decency. Curiously, of the latter impediment Clement remarked, “whatever such grounds there may be, such as, for example, as some are said falsely to assert, the existence of a betrothal between Louis and Jeanne.” The pope, perhaps impressed by the urgency of the king’s suit, was clearly disregarding—or overlooking—his bull of August 18, 1305 for Louis and Marguerite. In an accompanying letter sent to the king on the same day, January 7, 1307, Clement rehearsed the contents of the bull and stated that the king himself had declared false the belief some people had spread abroad that Louis and Jeanne had been betrothed. This is exceedingly curious. Pope Boniface’s prohibition in 1297 against the marriage of Jeanne to the king’s eldest son may, however, have convinced King Philip of the nullity of Louis’s contract with Jeanne, even though Boniface’s pronouncement on natural decency implied that their union, despite his disapproval, was valid. Far more puzzling, in light of Boniface’s decree on natural decency and King Philip’s earlier admissions, is Clement V’s willingness to accept the king’s declaration at face value. Clearly Clement had been pressed repeatedly to grant the dispensation. Philip himself had asked for it when he had visited the pope, and his envoys had frequently repeated his request. Clement said that he had become convinced by their arguments that the marriage would “exalt your name and honor and advance the peaceful and tranquil state of your kingdom and all Christianity.” But he was concerned by the steps he had taken. After treating other questions, he returned to the subject of dispensations, to caution Philip the Fair to cultivate discretion in arranging his children’s marriages. Clement reminded the king of the general dispensation for consanguinity that he had issued for the king’s children when Philip was with him in Lyon; he asked the king to return to him either that privilege or the dispensation granted to Philip and Jeanne. The pope asserted that it was not “fitting” (conveniens) for the king to have two such privileges from one pope under different dates and forms. He declared it his duty to lead the king to “restrain his appetite for dispensations” and to seek them only when they would bring great and evident benefit to the kingdom and advance the cause of peace and Christendom. He waxed eloquent in declaring to Philip that otherwise he risked offending “the king of kings” — Rex regum. Clement admitted his fear that God’s wrath would fall on the person who granted such requests— evidently Clement himself—as well as on the person—Philip the Fair—who used them. This was not the only time Clement upbraided Philip and expressed his indignation at the acts the king pressed him to perform—yet despite his protests, on this occasion as on others, he yielded.

Elizabeth A. R. Brown, 'Philip the Fair and His Family: His Sons, Their Marriages, and Their Wives', Medieval Prosopography, Vol. 32 (2017), 162-164

[thetemplarknight]

Did the Pope try to save the Knights Templar?

Did the Pope try to save the Knights Templar?

The normal account of what happened to the Templars is that King Philip of France – greedy for their wealth – crushed the knights with the active help of a compliant pope who did what he was told. But is that true?

Pope Clement V – tried to save the Knights Templar

Clement V was a pope in a weak position. His predecessor, Boniface VIII, had tried to stand up to King Philip and had literally…

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[bimbogollum]

My name is Ray,  I am the Pope,  To be wyth Philip Is my hope,  But somthyng else  Can make me mone,  I open tombs,  I lik the bone 

[jothelibrarian]

Pretty medieval manuscript of the day shows the Pope Clement V on horseback, with a falcon on his arm. I think it is a really lovely illustration, but I am very concerned by how tiny Clement's horse is...

Image source: St Gallen Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung MS 342. Creative Commons licensed via e-Codices.