The Power of the Popes: An Historical Essay on Their Temporal Dominion, and the Abuse of Their Spiritual AuthorityDaunou, P. C. F. (Pierre Claude François)
History
The Power of the Popes: An Historical Essay on Their Temporal Dominion, and the Abuse of Their Spiritual Authority
Daunou, P. C. F. (Pierre Claude François)
Papacy -- History; Popes -- Temporal power
211. Alexander V. Peter Philarge, born in the Isle
of Candia, bishop of Vicenza and Novara,
archbishop of Milan, cardinal, elected pope,
in the Council of Pisa, the 26th June, 1409,
crowned 7th July, the same year,
died at Bologna, May, 1410
212. John XXIII. Balthasar. Cossa, bora at Naples,
of a noble family, cardinal deacon,
elected at Bologna by sixteen cardinals, the
17th May; 1410, to succeed Alexander V.
is deposed by the Council of Constance,
29th May, 1415, died 22d of Nov. 1419
Council of Constance, from the 5th Nov.
1414, to the 22d April, 1418; 16th œcu−
menical
213. Martin V. Otho Colonna, a Roman, cardinal
deacon, elected pope at the Council of Con−
stance, the 11th Nov. 1417, crowned the
2l3th: he entered Rome the 22d Sept. 1420,
died the 21st Feb. 1431
214. Clement VIII. Gilles de Mugnos, canon of Bar−
celona, elected by two cardinals in 1424, to
succeed Benedict XIII. or Peter de Lune,
abdicates the 26th July, 1429
216. Eugene IV. Gabriel Condolmere, a Venetian,
cardinal, bishop of Sienna, elected in the
month of March 1431, to succeed Martin V.
crowned the 11th of the same month;
declares for the Orsini against the Colon−
lias; is deposed by the Council of Basle,
22d of June, 1439, died the 23d of Feb. 1440
Council of Basle, from the 23d of July,
1431, to the month of May 1043, the 17th
œcumenical Council of Florence, from the 26th Feb.
1439, to the 26th April, 1442, 18th œcu−
menical
Pragmatic Sanction of Charles VIII. in
1439
216. Felix V. Amadeus VIII. duke of Savoy, elected
pope by the Council of Basle, the 6th of Nov.
1439, crowned the 24th of July, 1440,
renounced the pontificate the 9th April, 1449
217. Nicholas V. Thomas de Sarzane, a Tuscan,
cardinal, bishop of Bologna, elected 6th
Nov. 1447, to succeed Eugene IV. and
crowned pope the 18th of the same month,
died the 24th March, 1455
End of the schism in the West in 1449.
Taking of Constantinople by the Turks
in 1453
218. Calixtus, III. Alphonso Borgia, born in 1377
at Valencia in Spain, cardinal, archbishop
of Valencia, elected pope the 8th April,
1455, and crowned the 20th, died 8th Aug. 1458
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