Avignon Papacy

By Markbetterly
  • Feb 15, 1296

    Taxing clergy members

    Philip the IV wanted to tax clergy members because he was at war and needed the money. Pope Boniface did not approve of this and it got him very angry.
  • Jan 1, 1303

    Pope boniface dies

    Was born on 24 december 1294
  • Jan 1, 1309

    Movement of the Papacy

    Pope Boniface's successor decided to move the papacy to France in Avignon. It remained in France for 67 years. People of Rome did not like the fact that it moved.
  • Apr 20, 1314

    pope clement V dies

  • Sep 13, 1376

    papacy moved back to Rome

    Pope Gregory XI moved the papacy back to Rome and was the biggest decision of his career.
  • Sep 13, 1376

    Pope Urban V

    he was the sixth pope to be France at the time.
  • Jan 1, 1378

    1378 schism

    The Great Schism of 1378 can be defined as more of a political rather than theological dispute. Other than three main claimants, various papal courts emerged at Rome, including those of Boniface IX in 1389, Innocent VII in 1404, and Gregory XII in 1406.