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URBAN V

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 791 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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URBAN V . (See also:Guillaume See also:Grimoard or Grimaud de See also:Beauvoir), See also:pope from the 28th of See also:October 1362 to the 19th of Decemoet 1370, was See also:born in 1309 near See also:Lozere in See also:Languedoc, and entered the See also:Benedictine priory of Chiriac. After receiving orders he became successively See also:professor of See also:canon See also:law at See also:Avignon and See also:Montpellier, See also:vicar-See also:general of the dioceses of Clermont and See also:Uzes, See also:abbot of St Germain d'See also:Auxerre, abbot of St See also:Victor at See also:Marseilles, See also:administrator of the bishopric of Avignon, and papal See also:legate to See also:Naples. He was returning from his See also:mission to See also:Italy when See also:news reached him at Corneto that he had been chosen to succeed See also:Innocent VI. He announced his See also:acceptance from Marseilles, and was consecrated at Avignon on the 6th of See also:November 1362. Urban witnessed the completion of the See also:work of tranquillizing Italy under the able See also:Cardinal See also:Albornoz, and in 1364, in the interests of See also:peace, made heavy concessions to Bernabo See also:Visconti. Moved by See also:Peter of See also:Lusignan, See also:king of See also:Cyprus, and by the celebrated Carmelite Peter See also:Thomas, who had come to Avignon in See also:February 1363, the pope proclaimed another crusade, which found some See also:echo in See also:France and resulted in the temporary occupation of See also:Alexandria (1365). Urban, yielding to the entreaties of the See also:Emperor See also:Charles IV. and of See also:Petrarch, See also:left Avignon on the 3oth of See also:April 1367, despite the opposition of the See also:French cardinals, and made his entry into See also:Rome on the 16th of October. The following See also:year he was visited by Charles IV., and crowned the Empress See also:Elizabeth (1st of November); and in 1369 he received the See also:Greek emperor, See also:John See also:Palaeologus, who renounced the See also:schism but for whom the pope was unable to secure assistance. See L. Pastor, See also:History of the Popes, vol. i, trans. by F. I.

Antrobus Urban sanctioned the See also:

order of Jesuates and founded the (See also:London, 1899) ; M. Souchon, See also:Die Papstwahlen in der Zeit See also:des medical school at Montpellier. On See also:account of the repair grossen Schismas, vol. 1 (See also:Brunswick, 1898) ; N. See also:Valois, La France poor rePa et le See also:grand schisme d'Occident (See also:Paris, 1896-1902); M. See also:Creighton, of Rome, the restlessness of the See also:Romans and the discontent of History of the Papacy, vol. r (London, 1899) ; F. See also:Gregorovius, Rome in the See also:Middle Ages, vol. 6, trans. by Mrs G. W. See also:Hamilton (London, 1900-2); R. Jahr, " Die Wahl Urbans VI." in Hallische Beitrage zur Geschichtsforschung (1892) ; T. Lindner, " Papst Urban VI.," in Zeitschrift See also:fur Kirchengeschichte, iii.

(1879); W. St C. See also:

Baddeley, Charles III. of Naples and Urban VI. (1894) ; J. B. Christophe, Histoire de la papaute See also:pendant le XIVe siecle, vol. 3 (Paris, 1853). (C. H.

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