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INNOCENT VII

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 581 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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INNOCENT VII . (Cosimo dei Migliorati), See also:pope from the 17th of See also:October 1404 to the 6th of See also:November 1406, was See also:born of See also:middle-class parentage at See also:Sulmona in the Abruzzi in 1339. On See also:account of his knowledge of See also:civil and See also:canon See also:law, he was made papal See also:vice-See also:chamberlain and See also:archbishop of See also:Ravenna by See also:Urban VI., and appointed by See also:Boniface IX. See also:cardinal See also:priest of Sta Croce in Gerusalemme, See also:bishop of See also:Bologna, and papal See also:legate to See also:England. He was unanimously chosen to succeed Boniface, after each of the cardinals had solemnly See also:bound himself to employ all lawful means for the restoration of the See also:church's unity in the event of his See also:election, and even, if necessary, to resign the papal dignity. The election was opposed at See also:Rome by a considerable party, but See also:peace was maintained by the aid of See also:Ladislaus of See also:Naples, in return for which Innocent made a promise, inconsistent with his previous See also:oath, not to come to terms with the antipope See also:Benedict XIIL, except on See also:condition that he should recognize the claims of Ladislaus to Naples. Innocent issued at the See also:close of 1404 a See also:summons for a See also:general See also:council to heal the See also:schism, and it was not the pope's See also:fault that the council never assembled, for the See also:Romans See also:rose in arms to secure an See also:extension of their liberties, and finally maddened by the See also:murder of some of their leaders by the pope's See also:nephew, Ludovico dei Migliorati, they compelled Innocent to take See also:refuge at See also:Viterbo (6th of See also:August 1405). The Romans, recognizing later the pope's innocence of the See also:outrage, made their submission to him in See also:January 1406. He returned to Rome in See also:March, and, by See also:bull of the 1st of See also:September, restored the See also:city's decayed university. Innocent was extolled by contemporaries as a See also:lover of peace and honesty, but he was without See also:energy, guilty of nepotism, and showed no favour to the proposal that he as well as the antipope should resign. He died on the 6th of November 1406 and was succeeded by See also:Gregory XII. See L. Pastor, See also:History of the Popes, vol. i., trans. by F.

I. Antrgbus (See also:

London, 1899) ; M. See also:Creighton, History of the Papacy, vol. i. (London, 1899); N. See also:Valois, La See also:France et le See also:grand,, schisme d'occident (See also:Paris, 1896—1902) ; See also:Louis Gayet, Le Grand Schisme d'occident (Paris, 1898) ; J. Loserth, Geschichte See also:des spateren Mittelalters (1903) ; Theodorici de Nyein, De schismate libri tres, ed. by G. Eyler (See also:Leipzig, 1890); K. I. von See also:Hefele, Conciliengeschichte, Bd. 6, 2nd ed.; J. von See also:Haller, Papsttum u. K2rchenreform (See also:Berlin, 1903). (C. H.

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