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The Tale of Pope Boniface is told in Book 2 of John Gower's Confessio Amantis as an exemplum of the sin of fraudulently supplanting others. Gower claims that Boniface tricked Pope Celestine V into abdicating by having a young cleric, pretending to be the voice of God, speak to him while he was sleeping and convince him to abdicate (ll. 2861 ...
The army attacked Boniface at his Palace in Anagni next to the cathedral. The Pope responded with a bull dated 8 September 1303, in which Philip and Nogaret were excommunicated. [5] Boniface was taken prisoner. Sciarra wished to kill him, but Nogaret's policy was to take him to France and compel him to summon a general council. [4]
In September 1303, Sciarra and Philip's advisor, Guillaume de Nogaret, led a small force into Anagni to arrest Boniface VIII and bring him to France, where he was to stand trial. While the two managed to apprehend the Pope, Sciarra reportedly slapped the pope in the face in the process, which was accordingly dubbed the "Outrage of Anagni". The ...
There have been eight popes and one antipope named Boniface. Pope Boniface I (r. 418–422) Pope Boniface II (530–532) Pope Boniface III (607) Pope Boniface IV (608–615) Pope Boniface V (619–625) Pope Boniface VI (896) Antipope Boniface VII (984–985) (now listed as an antipope) Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303) Pope Boniface IX (1389–1404)
The furious reaction of Philip and his ministry expressed in the Disputatio (written in simple language for a popular audience) can be understood within the context of a conflict between the increasing power of secular rulers in France and England, who were attempting to tax the clergy to support warfare.
The personal assault on Boniface is known as the Outrage of Anagni (Sciaffo di Anagni). [19] An ultimate ignominy was Philip's pressurizing Pope Clement V of the Avignon Papacy into staging a posthumous trial of Boniface. [20] Clement also obliged Philip in 1312 by suppressing the king's creditors, the Order of Templars, who were similarly ...
Pope Boniface VIII, in 1297, asked his advice on how to capture Palestrina, the impegnable stronghold of the Colonna family, offering in advance papal absolution for any sin his advice might entail. He advised Boniface to promise the Colonnas amnesty, then break it. As a result, the Collonas surrendered the fortress and it was razed to the ground.
The arrests of the Knights Templar, coupled with the defiance of the Colonna cardinals and Philip IV against Pope Boniface VIII, convinced Clement V to call a general council. [2] Though the site of Vienne was criticised for its lack of neutrality (being under the control of Philip), Clement nevertheless chose it as the site for the council. [3]