Boniface VIII

American  

noun

1. Benedetto Caetani, c1235–1303, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1294–1303.

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Boniface VIII British  

noun

1. original name Benedict Caetano . ?1234–1303, pope (1294–1303)

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Boniface VIII

Instead, he was imprisoned by his successor, Boniface VIII, whom Dante placed in one of the lower circles of Hell.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 14, 2015

The Emperor Henry IV knelt penitentially in the snows of Canossa before Pope Gregory VII; France's King Philip the Fair, a few centuries later, made a virtual prisoner of Boniface VIII.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the contest between Philip the Fair and Boniface VIII.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various

The Pope at the end of the century, the great Boniface VIII, was scarcely less assertive of the rights of the Church and of the Papacy than the first of the thirteenth-century Pontiffs.

From Education: How Old The New by Walsh, James J.

During the bitter persecution raised against his family by Boniface VIII.,

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas