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Some remained at Basel, still claiming to be the Council. They elected Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy, as Pope Felix V. He is considered an antipope, and was the only claimant to the papal throne who ever took the Basel oath. Driven out of Basel in 1448, they moved to Lausanne. In 1449, Felix V resigned and the rump Council formally closed. [3]
Formally, the Council of Basel was never closed. The council decreed in 1439 (a short-lived) union with Greek, Armenian, and Jacobite Churches (1442). The council had 25 sessions from July 1431 until April 1442. It met under Pope Eugene IV in Basel, Germany, and Ferrara and Florence, Italy. It was moved to Rome in 1442.
The reforms of the Council of Constance (1414–1418) and the Council of Basel-Ferrara-Florence (1431–1449) failed. [ clarification needed ] At the Synods of Orleans and Tours, in 1510, the French decided to convoke a general council.
Cesarini was made President of the Council of Basel, in which capacity he successfully resisted the efforts of Eugenius IV to dissolve the council, though later (1437) he withdrew, believing the majority of delegates present were more anxious to humiliate the pope than to accomplish reforms, for his first loyalty was to the idea of church unity.
Basel (/ ˈ b ɑː z əl /, BAH-zəl; German: ⓘ), also known as Basle, [note 1] is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the River Rhine (at the transition from the High to the Upper Rhine). [4] Basel is Switzerland's third-most-populous city (after Zurich and Geneva), with 177,595 inhabitants within the city municipality limits. [5]
The Peace of Basel of 1795 consists of three peace treaties involving France during the French Revolution (represented by François de Barthélemy). [ 1 ] The first was with Prussia (represented by Karl August von Hardenberg ) on 5 April; [ 2 ]
The Florentine–Milanese Wars or Visconti Wars [1] were three separate but connected conflicts in 1390–1402 between the Republic of Florence and her allies against the expansionist designs of the lordship (from 1395 Duchy) of Milan under Gian Galeazzo Visconti.
The Israelitische Gemeinde Basel (or IGB) is the first Jewish community in Switzerland to be recognised under public law. [22] 1973 – Invicta International Airlines Flight 435 crashed south of nearby Hochwald while attempting to land at Basel-Mulhouse Airport. The accident became known in the British media as the Basle air crash and was the ...