POPES
by Deb McCoy | Oct 20, 2023 | Popes
Pope Urban V temporarily escaped Avignon, France and went back to Rome. But it only lasted two years. He moved back to Avignon where he died. Pope Gregory XI tried again less than a decade later. And it worked. Pope Gregory XI was born Pierre Roger de Beaufort about...
by Deb McCoy | Sep 27, 2023 | Popes
Pope Innocent VI Pope Innocent VI was the fifth pope to live at Avignon, France, rather than Rome, Italy. It all started when Pope Boniface was kidnapped and tortured at his summer home just outside Rome in 1303. The Roman citizens were wild and chaotic. The popes...
by Deb McCoy | Sep 20, 2023 | Popes
Ceiling Palace of the Popes, Avignon Born as Pierre Roger (Rogers, Rosiers) Pope Clement was the fourth pope at Avignon. Before that he was born about 1291 at Chateau de Maumont, in Limousin, half-way between Paris and the Pyranees. His father was the lord of...
by Deb McCoy | Sep 6, 2023 | Popes
Palace of Popes, Avignon The third Avignon pope, Pope Benedict XII was born around 1280-1285 in the county of Foix, southern France near the Pyrenees Mountains. Nothing is known of his immediate family. His name was Jacques Fournier. The first we know of him is...
by Deb McCoy | Sep 6, 2023 | Popes
Pens and paper of the 14th century Pope John XXII was a most difficult man. His argumentative nature, his waffling decisions and his absolute desire to have ecclesiastical authority be supreme all made him hard to deal with. Born Jacques Dueze in 1244 at Cahors in...
by Deb McCoy | Sep 5, 2023 | Popes
Knights Templar Bertrand de Got was born in Aquitaine, now in France, but then in the Holy Roman Empire. At first, being from a wealthy family, he entertained himself with studying the arts in Toulouse and enjoying wine making. Later he studied canon and civil law at...
