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INNOCENT VI

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 581 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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INNOCENT VI . (See also:Etienne Aubert), See also:pope from the 18th of See also:December 1352 to the 12th of See also:September 1362, was See also:born at See also:Mons in See also:Limousin. He became See also:professor of See also:civil See also:law at See also:Toulouse and subsequently See also:chief See also:judge of the See also:city. Having taken orders, he was raised to the see of See also:Noyon and translated in 134.0 to that of Clermont. In 1342 he was made See also:cardinal-See also:priest of Sti Giovanni e See also:Paolo, and ten years later cardinal-See also:bishop,of See also:Ostia and See also:Velletri, See also:grand See also:penitentiary, and See also:administrator of the bishopric of See also:Avignon. On the See also:death of See also:Clement VI., the cardinals made a See also:solemn agreement imposing obligations, mainly in favour of the See also:college as a whole, on whichever of their number should be elected pope. Aubert was one of the minority who signed the agreement with the See also:reservation that in so doing he would not violate any law, and was elected pope on this understanding; not See also:long after his See also:accession he declared the agreement null and void, as infringing the divinely-bestowed See also:power of the papacy. Innocent was one of the best Avignon popes and filled with reforming zeal; he revoked the reservations and commendations of his predecessor and prohibited pluralities; urged upon the higher See also:clergy the See also:duty of See also:residence in their See also:sees, and diminished the luxury of the papal See also:court. Largely through the See also:influence of See also:Petrarch, whom he called to Avignon, he released Cola di Rienzo, who had been sent a prisoner in See also:August 1352 from See also:Prague to Avignon, and used the latter to assist Cardinal See also:Albornoz, See also:vicar-See also:general of the States of the See also:Church, in tranquillizing See also:Italy and restoring the papal power at See also:Rome. Innocent caused See also:Charles IV. to be crowned See also:emperor at Rome in 13J5, but protested against the famous " See also:Golden See also:Bull " of the following See also:year, which prohibited papal interference in See also:German royal elections. He renewed the See also:ban against See also:Peter the Cruel of See also:Castile, and interfered in vain against Peter IV. of See also:Aragon. He made See also:peace between See also:Venice and See also:Genoa, and in 1360 arranged the treaty of Bretigny between See also:France and See also:England.

In the last years of his pontificate he was busied with preparations for a crusade and for the See also:

reunion of Christendom. and sent to See also:Constantinople the celebrated Carmelite See also:monk, Peter See also:Thomas, to negotiate with the claimants to the See also:Greek See also:throne. He instituted in 1354 the festival of the See also:Holy See also:Lance. Innocent was a strong and See also:earnest See also:man of monastic temperament, but not altogether See also:free from nepotism. He was succeeded by See also:Urban V. 1 he chief See also:sources for the See also:life of Innocent VI. are in Baluzius, Vitae Pap. _lvenion. vol. i. (See also:Paris, 1693); Magnum bullariii Ronxruuu, vol. iv. (See also:Turin, 1859); E. Weruusky, Excerpta ex registris Clemcntis VI. et Innocentii VI. (See also:Innsbruck, 1883'. See also L. Pastor (1(See also:story the I'vpes, vol. i. trans. by F.

I. Antrottus (See also:

London, 1899) ; F. See also:Gregorovius, Rome in the See also:Middle Ages, vol. 6, trans. by Mrs G. W. See also:Hamilton (London, 1900—1902); D. Cerri, Innocenzo Papa VI (Turin, 1823); J. B. Christophe, Histoire de la papaute See also:pendant le XIVe siecle, vol. 2 (Paris, 1853); M. Souchon, See also:Die Papstwahlen (See also:Brunswick, 1888) ; G. Daumet, Innocent VI et See also:Blanche de See also:Bourbon (Paris, 1899); E.

Werunsky, Gesch. Kaiser Karts IV. (Innsbruck, 1892). There is an excellent See also:

article by M. See also:Naumann in Hauck's Realencyklopddie, 3rd ed. (C. H.

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