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Pope Boniface VIII

Pope Boniface VIII

1230 CE–1303 CE · Anagni

Born Benedetto Caetani at Anagni, Boniface VIII was an able canon lawyer who succeeded the resigned Celestine V. He advanced the most expansive claims of papal authority over temporal rulers, clashing fiercely with Philip IV of France over taxation of clergy and royal jurisdiction. His bull Unam Sanctam (1302) asserted papal supremacy in its strongest form. He proclaimed the first Jubilee Year in 1300. The conflict climaxed in the 1303 'Outrage of Anagni,' when agents of Philip and the Colonna seized him; he died weeks later in Rome. Dante, a fierce critic, consigned him to Hell among the simoniacs—reflecting deeply contested judgments of his reign.

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