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The Grand Chapel, where the Avignon popes worshipped. Under Popes Clement VI , Innocent VI and Urban V , the building was expanded to form what is now known as the Palais Neuf. An architect, Jean de Louvres, was commissioned by Clement VI to build a new tower and adjoining buildings, including a 52-metre (171 ft) long Grand Chapel to serve as ...
Pope Clement V (Latin: Clemens Quintus; c. 1264 – 20 April 1314), born Raymond Bertrand de Got (also occasionally spelled de Guoth and de Goth), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 5 June 1305 to his death, in April 1314.
Clement V's decision to relocate the papacy to France was one of the most contested issues in the papal conclave following his 1314 death, during which the minority of Italian cardinals were unable to engineer the return of the papacy to Rome. This immediately preceded the beginning of the Avignon Papacy.
Palais des Papes, Avignon. The conclave started on May 5 and lasted only two days. On May 7 Cardinal Pierre Roger, former Chancellor of the Kingdom of France, was unanimously elected Pope, "by divine inspiration alone", as reported shortly thereafter Cardinals des Farges and Ceccano. [4] Elect took the name of Clement VI.
The Avignon Papacy (Occitan: Papat d'Avinhon; French: Papauté d'Avignon) was the period from 1309 to 1376 during which seven successive popes resided in Avignon (at the time within the Kingdom of Arles, part of the Holy Roman Empire, now part of France) rather than in Rome (now the capital of Italy). [1]
Robert of Geneva (French: Robert de Genève; 1342 – 16 September 1394) was elected to the papacy as Clement VII (French: Clément VII) by the cardinals who opposed Pope Urban VI and was the first antipope residing in Avignon, France.
In 1447, during the residency of Bishop Pierre de Foix, who was the papal legate in Avignon, [4] the town council acquired the apostolic palace from the Benedictines of the Convent of St. Laurence and converted it for municipal use. [5] [6] [7] A clock, equipped with colourful jacquemarts to strike the hour, was installed in the belfry in 1471. [2]
Pope Clement VI: Jean de Moulins, O.P. Priest of S. Sabina 1350, December 17 Pope Clement VI: Gaillard de la Mothe: Deacon of S. Lucia in Silice 1316, December 17 Pope John XXII: Protodeacon of the Sacred College of Cardinals Bernard de la Tour: Deacon of S. Eustachio 1342, September 20 Pope Clement VI (Cardinal-nephew) Guillaume de la Jugié