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CLEMENT XI

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 486 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CLEMENT XI . (Giovanni See also:Francesco See also:Albani), See also:pope from 1700 to 1721, was See also:born in See also:Urbino, on the 22nd of See also:July 1649, received an extraordinary See also:education in letters, See also:theology and See also:law, filled various important offices in the See also:Curia, and finally, on the 23rd of See also:November 1700, succeeded See also:Innocent XII. as pope. His private See also:life and his See also:administration were blameless, but it was his misfortune to reign in troublous times. In the See also:war of the See also:Spanish See also:Succession he would willingly have remained neutral, but found himself between two fires, forced first to recognize See also:Philip V., then driven by the See also:emperor to recognize the See also:Archduke See also:Charles. In the See also:peace of See also:Utrecht he was ignored; See also:Sardinia and See also:Sicily, See also:Parma and See also:Piacenza, were disposed of without regard to papal claims. When he quarrelled with the See also:duke of See also:Savoy, and revoked his See also:investiture rights in Sicily (1715), his See also:interdict was treated with contempt. The See also:prestige of the papacy had hardly been See also:lower within two centuries. About 1702 the Jansenist controversy See also:broke out afresh. Clement reaffirmed the See also:infallibility of the pope, in matters of fact (1705), and, in 1713, issued the See also:bull Unigenitus, condemning tot Jansenistic propositions extracted from the Moral Reflections of See also:Pasquier See also:Quesnel. The rejection of this bull by certain bishops led to a new party See also:division and a further prolonging of the controversy (see See also:JANSENISM and QUESNEL, PASQuIER). Clement also forbade the practice of the Jesuit missionaries in See also:China of " accommodating " their teachings to See also:pagan notions or customs, in See also:order to win converts. Clement was a polished writer, and a generous See also:patron of See also:art and letters.

He died on the 19th of See also:

March 1721. For contemporary lives see Elci, The See also:Present See also:State of the See also:Court of See also:Rome, trans. from the Ital. (See also:London, 17o6); Polidoro, De Vita et Reb. Gest. Clem. XI. (Urbino, 1727); Reboulet, Hist. de Clem. XI.. Pape (See also:Avignon, 1752); Guarnacci, Vitae et res gest. Pontiff. Rom. (Rome, 1751); Sanding, Vitae Pontiff Rom.

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Padua, 1739); Buder, Tome, u. Thaten Clementis XI. (See also:Frankfort, 1720-1721). See also Clementis XI. See also:Opera Omnia (Frankfort, 1729) ; the detailed " Studii sul pontificate di Clem. XI.," by Pometti in the Archiaio Bella R. See also:Soc. See also:romana di See also:scoria patria, vols. 21, 22, 23 (1898-1909), and the extended bibliography in See also:Hergenrother, Allg. Kirchengesch. (s88o), iii. 506. (T.

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