Pope Clement V
1264 CE–1314 CE · Villandraut
Born Bertrand de Got in Gascony, Clement V was Archbishop of Bordeaux when elected after an eleven-month conclave. Crowned at Lyon, he never went to Italy and in 1309 settled the papacy at Avignon, inaugurating the nearly seventy-year period later called the 'Babylonian Captivity' of the papacy. Heavily pressured by Philip IV of France, he suppressed the Knights Templar at the Council of Vienne (1312) after a controversial trial, an act still debated by historians. He created many French cardinals, advanced his relatives, and issued the Clementine constitutions of canon law. He died in 1314 and was buried in his native Gascony.
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About Villandraut
Villandraut, a village in Gascony (Gironde), southwestern France. It was the birthplace of Bertrand de Got, the future Pope Clement V, who moved the papacy to Avignon.
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