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Pope Clement VI

Pope of the Catholic Church and the fourth Avignon Pope (1342–1352)

12 dated entries naming Pope Clement VI, drawn from 8 separate years between 1342 CE and 1370 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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14th century

  • 1342May 7 – Pope Clement VI succeeds Pope Benedict XII, as the 198th Pope.source
  • 1343January 27 – Pope Clement VI issues his bull Unigenitus, defining the doctrine of "The Treasury of Merits" or "The Treasury of the Church" as the basis for the issuance of indulgences by the Catholic Church.source
  • 1344October 21 – Pope Clement VI issues dispensation for marriage between Maurice fitz Thomas FitzGerald, Earl of Kildare, and Joan, daughter of the Earl of Desmond.source
  • 1347Pope Clement VI unites several of Rome's upper-class nobility, who drive Cola di Rienzo out of the city.source
  • 1347"The Friars Preachers of Ireland obtained an exemption and permission to eat flesh outside (the priory) from the lord Pope Clement VI, that from the beginning of their religious (life) they did not have before."source
  • 1347January 26 – Charles University in Prague is founded by a bull issued by Pope Clement VI, at the request of Charles I, King of Bohemia.source
  • 1348July 6 – A papal bull is issued by Pope Clement VI, protecting Jews against popular aggression during the Black Death pandemic.source
  • 1349October 20 – Pope Clement VI publishes a papal bull that condemns the Flagellants.source
  • 1349November 17 – Pope Clement VI annuls the marriage of William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, and Joan of Kent, on the grounds of her prior marriage to Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent.source
  • 1352December 6 – Pope Clement VI (born 1291)source
  • 1352December 18 – Pope Innocent VI succeeds Pope Clement VI as the 199th pope.source
  • 1370December 30 – Cardinal Pierre de Beaufort, nephew of the late Pope Clement VI, is unanimously elected as the new Pope by 18 of the 20 Roman Catholic cardinals at Avignon. Beaufort takes the name Pope Gregory XI and is crowned six days later.source

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