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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 651 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NICHOLAS V . (Pietro Rainalducci), antipope in See also:Italy from 1328 to 1330 during the pontificate of See also:John XXII. at See also:Avignon, was a native of Corbara in the Abruzzi. He joined the Franciscan See also:order after separating from his wife in 1310, and became famous as a preacher. He was elected through the See also:influence of the excommunicated See also:emperor, See also:Louis the Bavarian, by an See also:assembly of priests and laymen, and consecrated at St See also:Peter's on the 12th of May 1328 by the See also:bishop of See also:Venice. After spending four months in See also:Rome, he withdrew with Louis to See also:Viterbo and thence to See also:Pisa, where he was guarded by the imperial See also:vicar. He was excommunicated by John XXII. in See also:April 1329, and sought See also:refuge with See also:Count Bonif See also:ace of Donoratico near See also:Piombino. Having obtained assurance of See also:pardon, he presented a See also:confession of his sins first to the See also:archbishop of Pisa, and then (25th of See also:August 1330) to the See also:pope at Avignon. He remained in See also:honour-able imprisonment in the papal See also:palace until his See also:death in See also:October 1333• See F. See also:Gregorovius, Rome in the See also:Middle Ages, vol. 6, trans. by Mrs G. W. See also:Hamilton (See also:London, 1900—1902) ; Baluzius, Vitae paparum Avenionensium, vol.

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Paris, 1693); J. B. Christophe, Histoi"e de la papaute See also:pendant le XIV~°'"° siecle, vol. 1 (Paris, 1853); E. Marcour, Anteil der Minoriten am Kampfe zwischen See also:Konig See also:Ludwig IV. von Bayern and Papst Johann XXII. (See also:Emmerich, 1874) ; Eubel, " Der Gegenpapst Nicolaus V. u. See also:seine Hierarchie," in Hist. Jahrbuch, vol. 12 (1891). (C. H.

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