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x Pope Urban I Pope Urban I 222 C.E. Deceased Person
Pope Saint Urban I was pope from 14 October 222 to 230. He was born in Rome, Roman Empire and succeeded St. Callixtus I who had been martyred. For centuries it was believed that Urban too was martyred, however recent historical discoveries now lead...
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x Pope Lucius I Immagine di papa Lucio I 253 C.E. Deceased Person
Pope Saint Lucius I was Pope from June 25, 253 to March 5, 254. St. Lucius was born in Rome at an unknown date, nothing is known about his family except his father's name, Porphyrianus. He was elected probably on June 25, 253, and died on March 5,...
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x Pope Damasus I Pope Damasus I 300 C.E. Deceased Person
Pope Saint Damasus I was Pope from 366 to 384. He was born around 305, probably near the city of Idanha-a-Velha (in Lusitania, Hispania), in what is present-day Portugal, or near the city of Castelo Branco (also in Lusitania, now Central Portugal),...
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x Pope Leo I greatleoone 400 C.E. Deceased Person
Pope Leo I, or Pope Saint Leo the Great (ca. 400-10 November 461), was pope from 29 September 440 to 10 November 461. He was an Italian aristocrat, and is the first pope of the Catholic Church to have been called the title "the Great". He is perhaps...
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x Pope Innocent I Innocentius_I 401 C.E. Deceased Person
Pope Saint Innocent I was pope from 401 to March 12 417. He was, according to his biographer in the Liber Pontificalis, the son of a man called Innocens of Albano; but according to his contemporary Jerome, his father was Pope Anastasius I (399-401),...
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x Pope Silverius Immagine di papa Silverio 536 C.E. Deceased Person
Pope Saint Silverius was Pope from June 8 536 until March 537. He was a legitimate son of Pope Hormisdas, born before his father entered the priesthood. He was probably consecrated on June 8 536. He opposed the restoration of the monophysite heretic...
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x Pope Gregory I Gregorythegreat 540 C.E. Deceased Person
Pope St. Gregory I (Latin: Gregorius I (Magnus) (Italian: Gregorio I); c. 540 – 12 March 604), better known in English as Gregory the Great, was pope from 3 September 590 until his death. Gregory is well-known for his writings, which were more...
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x Pope Boniface IV Pope Boniface IV 550 C.E. Deceased Person
Pope Saint Boniface IV (c. 550 – May 25, 615) was pope from 608 to his death. Son of Johannes, a physician, a Marsian from the province and town of Valeria; he succeeded Boniface III after a vacancy of over nine months. He was consecrated on either...
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x Pope Pelagius I Pope Pelagius I 556 C.E. Deceased Person
Pope Pelagius I was pope from 556 to March 4, 561. He was the second pope of the Byzantine Papacy, like his predecessor a former apocrisiarius to Constantinople. He came from a Roman noble family. His father, John, seems to have been vicar of one of...
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x Pope Agatho Pope Agatho 577 C.E. Deceased Person
Pope Saint Agatho (c. 577 – January 10 681), was pope from June 27 678 to January 10 681. A Greek born in Sicily of wealthy and devout parents, he allegedly gave away his inheritance after their death and retired to a monastery in Palermo. This...
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x Pope Eugene I PopeeugeneI 654 C.E. Deceased Person
Pope Saint Eugene I or Eugenius I, was pope from 10 August 654, to 1 June 657. He was a native of Rome, born to one Rufinianus. He was elected pope on 10 August 654, ascended in 655, and died on 1 June 657, of natural causes. Little is known of Pope...
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x Pope Stephen III StephenIII 720 C.E. Deceased Person
Pope Stephen III, (720 – January 24 772), pope August 1 or August 7 768 – January 24 772, was a native of Sicily. He came to Rome during the pontificate of Gregory III and gradually rose to high office in the service of successive popes. After the...
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x Pope Gregory III Immagine di papa Gregorio III 731 C.E. Deceased Person
Gregory III (died November 28 741) was pope from 731 to 741. A Syrian by birth (the last pope to date born outside of Europe), he succeeded Gregory II in March 731. His pontificate, like that of his predecessor, was disturbed by the iconoclastic...
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x Pope Zachary Immagine di papa Zaccaria 741 C.E. Deceased Person
Saint Zachary (Greek Zacharias) was pope from 741 to 752. A Greek from Calabria, he was the last pope of the Byzantine Papacy. Most probably he was a deacon of the Roman Church and as such signed the decrees of the Roman council of 732 and was on...
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x Pope Adrian II Adrian_II‎ 792 C.E. Deceased Person
Adrian II (also known as Hadrian II), (792–872), pope from December 14, 867 to December 14, 872, was a member of a noble Roman family, and became pope in 867, at an advanced age. He maintained, but with less energy, the attitude of his predecessor...
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x Pope Formosus Jean Paul Laurens Le Pape Formose et Etienne VII 1870 816 C.E. Deceased Person
Formosus (c. 816 - 896) was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 891 to 896. His brief reign as Pope was troubled, and his remains were exhumed and put on trial in the notorious Cadaver Synod. Born at Ostia, he became Cardinal Bishop of Portus in...
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x Pope Nicholas I Pope Nicholas I 820 C.E. Deceased Person
Pope Saint Nicholas I, (Rome c. 820 – November 13, 867), or Nicholas the Great, reigned from April 24, 858 until his death. He is remembered as a consolidator of papal authority and power, exerting decisive influence upon the historical development...
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x Pope Eugene II Eugene II 824 C.E. Deceased Person
Eugene II, (in Latin: Eugenius II), pope (824-827) was a native of Rome and was chosen to succeed Paschal I. Another candidate, Zinzinnus, was proposed by the plebeian faction, and the presence of Lothar, son of the Frankish emperor Louis the Pious...
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x Pope Gregory IV Gregory-IV Raban-Maur Dec 20, 827 C.E. Deceased Person
Gregory IV, pope (December 20 827-January 11 844), was chosen to succeed Valentine in December 827, on which occasion he recognized the supremacy of the Frankish emperor Louis the Pious in the most unequivocal manner. Papal dependence on the Holy...
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x Pope Stephen V Stephen_V‎ 885 C.E. Deceased Person
Pope Stephen V, (885-891), succeeded Pope Adrian III, and was in turn succeeded by Pope Formosus. In his dealings with Constantinople in the matter of Photius, as also in his relations with the young Slavonic church, he pursued the policy of Pope...
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x Pope Leo V Pope_Leo_V‎ 900 C.E. Deceased Person
Leo V, a native of Ardea, was Pope for some thirty days in 903 after the death of Pope Benedict IV (900–903). He was dethroned by antipope Christopher (903–904), who is sometimes considered a legitimate pope. Elected while a priest, Leo V's...
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x Pope John XI Ioannes XI 910 C.E. Deceased Person
John XI (910?–December, 935) was a Pope from March, 931 (at the age of 20) to December, 935. The parentage of John XI is still a matter of dispute. According to Liutprand of Cremona (Antapodosis, ii. c. 48) and the "Liber Pontificalis," he was the...
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x Pope Leo VI LeoVIpapa 914 C.E. Deceased Person
Leo VI, a Roman, succeeded Pope John X (914–928) as Pope in 928. He reigned a little over seven months; the exact dates are not known. He was succeeded by Pope Stephen VII (928–931). Leo VI was son of the primicerius Christopher and held the title...
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x Pope Marinus II Marinus_II‎ 932 C.E. Deceased Person
Marinus II (or Martin III), born in Rome, was Pope from 942 to 946. He was elevated to the papacy through intervention of Alberic II (932–954) of Spoleto and concentrated on administrative aspects of the papacy.
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x Pope John XII GiovanniXII 937 C.E. Deceased Person
John XII, born Octavianus (c. 937–May 14, 964), was Pope from December 16, 955 to May 14, 964. The son of Alberic II, Patrician of Rome (932–954), and his stepsister Alda of Vienne, he was a seventh generation descendant of Charlemagne on his mother...
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x Pope Silvester II Pope Silvester II 946 C.E. Religious Leader
Pope Sylvester II, or Silvester II (c. 946–May 12, 1003), born Gerbert d'Aurillac, was a prolific scholar, teacher, and pope. He endorsed and promoted Arabic knowledge of arithmetic, mathematics, and astronomy in Europe, reintroducing the abacus and...
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x Pope Gregory V Immagine di papa Gregorio V 972 C.E. Deceased Person
Gregory V, né Bruno von Kärnthen (c. 972 – February 18 999), Pope from May 3 996 to February 18, 999, son of the Salian Otto I, Duke of Carinthia, who was a grandson of the Emperor Otto I the Great (936–973). Gregory V succeeded Pope John XV (985...
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x Pope John XV IoannesXV 974 C.E. Deceased Person
John XV (born in Rome), Pope from 985 to 996, succeeding Boniface VII (974, 984–985). It was said to have been Pope after another Pope John that reigned four months after Pope John XIV (983–984) and was named "Papa Ioannes XIV Bis" or "Pope John XIV...
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x Pope Leo IX Castle in Eguisheim, birthplace of Bruno of Eguisheim-Dagsburg Jun 21, 1002 Deceased Person
Pope Saint Leo IX (June 21, 1002 – April 19, 1054), born Bruno of Eguisheim-Dagsburg (German Bruno von Egisheim-Dagsburg), was Pope from February 12, 1049 to his death. He is regarded as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church, with the feast day of...
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x Pope Clement II Pope Clement II 1005 Deceased Person
Clement II, born Suidger of Morsleben and Hornburg (1005 – October 9, 1047), was Pope from December 25, 1046 to his death. He was the first in a series of reform-minded Popes from Germany. Born in Hornburg, Lower Saxony, Germany, he was the son of...
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x Pope Benedict IX B Benedikt IX 1012 Religious Leader
Pope Benedict IX (c. 1012 – c.1085), born Theophylactus of Tusculum, was Pope on three occasions between 1032 and 1048. One of the youngest popes, he was the only man to have been Pope on more than one occasion and the only man ever to have sold the...
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x Pope Victor II Vicii bild 1018 Deceased Person
Victor II (c. 1018–July 28, 1057), born Gebhard, Count of Calw, Tollenstein, and Hirschberg, was Pope from 1055 to 1057. He was one of a series of German reform Popes. He was born Gebhard of Calw, a son of the Swabian Count Hartwig of Calw and a...
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x Pope Stephen IX B Stephan IX 1020 Deceased Person
Pope Stephen IX (c. 1020 - March 29, 1058) was Pope from August 3, 1057 to March 1058. His baptismal name was Frederick of Lorraine (French: Frédéric de Lorraine), and he was a younger brother of Godfrey III, Duke of Lower Lorraine, who, as Marquis...
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x Pope Gregory VII Pope Gregory VII, 11th Century 1020 Deceased Person
Pope Saint Gregory VII (c. 1015/1028 – May 25, 1085), born Hildebrand of Sovana (Italian: Ildebrando di Soana), was Pope from April 22, 1073, until his death. One of the great reforming popes, he is perhaps best known for the part he played in the...
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x Pope Victor III Victor III 1026 Deceased Person
Pope Blessed Victor III (c.1026 – 16 September 1087), born Daufer (Dauphar), Latinised Dauferius, was the Pope (from 24 May 1086) as the successor of Pope Gregory VII, yet his pontificate is far less impressive in history than his time as Desiderius...
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x Pope Urban II Urban II, 12th century, from Roman de Godfroi de Bouillon 1035 Deceased Person
Pope Blessed Urban II (ca.1035 – 29 July 1099), born Otho de Lagery (alternatively: Otto, Odo or Eudes), was Pope from 12 March 1088 until his death. He is most known for starting the First Crusade (1095–99) and setting up the modern day Roman Curia...
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x Pope Gelasius II GelasioII 1058 Deceased Person
Gelasius II (died January 29, 1119), born Giovanni Coniulo(John of Gaeta), was pope from January 24, 1118 to January 29, 1119. He was born between 1060 and 1064 at Gaeta from an illustrious family of Pisa, one of the four main historical Marine...
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x Pope Anastasius IV B Anastasius IV 1073 Deceased Person
Pope Anastasius IV (born ca. 1073, died 3 December 1154), born Corrado Demetri della Suburra, was Pope from 1153 to 1154. He was a Roman, son of Benedictus de Suburra, probably of the family of Demetri, and became a secular clerk. He was created...
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x Pope Adrian IV Pope Adrian IV 1100 Deceased Person
Pope Adrian IV (c. 1100–1 September 1159), born Nicholas Breakspear or Breakspeare, was Pope from 1154 to 1159. Adrian IV is the only Englishman who has occupied the papal chair. It is generally believed that Nicholas Breakspear was born at...
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x Pope Gregory VIII Pope Gregory VIII 1100 Deceased Person
Pope Gregory VIII (c. 1100/1105, Benevento, Italy–December 17, 1187, Pisa, Italy), born Alberto di Morra, was Pope from October 25, 1187 until his death. Alberto di Morra was born about 1110 in Benevento, Italy. His father was the nobleman Sartorius...
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x Pope Lucius III Pope Lucius III 1100 Deceased Person
Pope Lucius III (ca.1100 – November 25, 1185), born Ubaldo, was pope from September 1, 1181 to his death. A native of the independent republic of Lucca, he was born ca. 1100 (1097?) as Ubaldo, son of Orlando. He is commonly referred to as a member...
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x Pope Celestine III Pope Celestine III 1106 Deceased Person
Pope Celestine III (Rome, c. 1106 – January 8, 1198), born Giacinto Bobone, was elected Pope on March 21, 1191, and reigned until his death. He was born into the noble Orsini family, though he was only a cardinal deacon before becoming Pope. He was...
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x Pope Clement III B Clemens III 1130 Deceased Person
Pope Clement III (1130 – March 20, 1191), born Paulino (or Paolo) Scolari, was elected Pope on December 19, 1187 and reigned until his death. A Roman by birth, he was made in succession, by Pope Alexander III, Archpriest of the patriarchal Liberian...
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x Pope Gregory IX /wikipedia/images/commons_id/349677 1145 Deceased Person
Pope Gregory IX, born Ugolino di Conti, was pope from March 19, 1227 to August 22, 1241. The successor of Pope Honorius III (1216–27), he fully inherited the traditions of Pope Gregory VII (1073–85) and of his uncle Pope Innocent III (1198-1216),...
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x Pope Honorius III Pope Honorius III 1148 Deceased Person
Pope Honorius III (1148 – March 18, 1227), born with the name Cencio, was Pope from 1216 to 1227. He was born in Rome as son of Aimerico. He is often listed as member of Roman Savelli family, but this is disputed. For a time he was canon at the...
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x Pope Innocent III Innozenz3 Feb 22, 1161 Deceased Person
Pope Innocent III (1160 or 1161 - 16 July 1216 at Perugia) was Pope from 8 January 1198 until his death. He was born with the name Lottario dei Conti di Segni, sometimes anglicised to Lothar of Segni. Lotario de' Conti was born Gavignano, near...
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x Pope Urban IV Pope Urban IV 1195 Deceased Person
Pope Urban IV (c. 1195 in Troyes, France – October 2, 1264 in Perugia), born Jacques Pantaléon, was Pope, from 1261 to 1264. He was not a cardinal, and there have been several Popes since him who have not been Cardinals, including Urban V and Urban...
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x Pope Alexander IV Pope Alexander IV 1199 Deceased Person
Pope Alexander IV (1199 or ca. 1185 – May 25, 1261) was Pope from 1254 until his death. Born as Rinaldo di Jenne, in Jenne, near Anagni, he was, on his mother's side, a member of the de' Conti di Segni family, the counts of Segni, like Pope Innocent...
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x Pope Adrian V Hadrian V 1205 Deceased Person
Pope Adrian V (c. 1210/20 – August 18, 1276), born Ottobuono de' Fieschi, was Pope in 1276. Ottobuono belonged to a feudal family of Liguria, the Fieschi, Counts of Lavagna. His first clerical position came in 1243, when he was created a papal...
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x Pope Honorius IV PopeOnorioIV 1210 Deceased Person
Pope Honorius IV (c. 1210 – April 3, 1287), born Giacomo Savelli, was Pope for two years from 1285 to 1287. During his unremarkable pontificate he largely continued to pursue the pro-French policy of his predecessor, Pope Martin IV (1281–85). He was...
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x Pope Martin IV B Martin IV 1210 Deceased Person
Pope Martin IV (between 1210 and 1220 – March 28, 1285), born Simon de Brion, held the papacy from February 21, 1281 until his death. Simon de Brion, son of Jean, sieur de Brion, was born at the château of Meinpicien in the province of Touraine,...
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x Pope Gregory X Pope Gregory X 1210 Deceased Person
Pope Blessed Gregory X (Piacenza 1210 – Arezzo January 10, 1276), born Tebaldo Visconti, was Pope from 1271 to 1276. He was elected by the papal election, 1268–1271, the longest papal election in the history of the Roman Catholic Church. Born in...
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x Pope John XXI B Johannes XXI 1215 Deceased Person
Pope John XXI (1215 – May 20, 1277; Portuguese: Papa João XXI), born Pedro Julião (Latin, Petrus Iulianus), a Portuguese also called Pedro Hispano (Latin, Petrus Hispanus), was Pope from 1276 until his death about eight months later. He was the only...
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x Pope Celestine V Pope Celestine V 1215 Deceased Person
Pope Saint Celestine V (c. 1215 – 19 May 1296), born Pietro Angelerio (according to some sources Angelario, Angelieri, Angelliero, or Angeleri), also known as Pietro da Morrone, was elected pope in the year 1294, by the Papal election, 1292–1294,...
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x Pope Innocent V Pope Innocent V 1225 Deceased Person
Pope Blessed Innocent V (c. 1225 – June 22, 1276), born Pierre de Tarentaise, was Pope from January 21 to June 22, 1276. He was born around 1225 near Moûtiers in the Tarentaise region of the County of Savoy, then part of the Kingdom of Arles in the...
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x Pope Nicholas IV Image:NicholasIV Sep 30, 1227 Deceased Person
Pope Nicholas IV (September 30, 1227 – April 4, 1292), born Girolamo Masci, was Pope from February 22, 1288 to April 4, 1292. A Franciscan monk, he had been legate to the Greeks under Pope Gregory X (1271–76) in 1272, succeeded Bonaventure as...
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x Pope Boniface VIII Giotto - Bonifatius VIII 1235 Deceased Person
Pope Boniface VIII (c. 1235 – October 11, 1303), born Benedetto Caetani, was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 1294 to 1303. Today, Boniface VIII is probably best remembered for his feuds with Dante, who placed him in a circle of Hell in his...
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x Pope Benedict XI Pope Benedict XI 1240 Deceased Person
Pope Blessed Benedict XI (1240 – July 7, 1304), born Nicola Boccasini, was Pope from 1303 to 1304. Born in Treviso, he succeeded Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303), but was unable to carry out his policies. Benedict XI was a Dominican and when he was...
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x Pope John XXII John22 1249 Deceased Person
Pope John XXII (1249 – December 4, 1334), born Jacques Duèze (or d'Euse), was pope from 1316 to 1334. He was the second Pope of the Avignon Papacy (1309-1377), elected by a conclave in Lyon assembled by Philip V of France. Like his predecessor,...
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x Pope Clement V Pope Clement V 1264 Deceased Person
Pope Clement V (About 1264 – April 20, 1314), born Raymond Bertrand de Got (also occasionally spelled de Gouth and de Goth), was Pope from 1305 to his death. He is memorable in history for ordering the execution of the Order of the Templars, and as...
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