Clement V

noun

1. Bertrand de Got, 1264–1314, French ecclesiastic: pope 1305–14.

Clement V

noun

1. Clement V?12641314MFrenchRELIGION: pope original name Bertrand de Got. ?1264–1314, pope (1305–14): removed the papal seat from Rome to Avignon in France (1309)

Example Sentences

Less discouraging were other doings of Clement V in Poitiers.

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Clement V., anxious to repair his injustice, afterwards paid extraordinary honours to the memory of Bishop Gauthier.

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In 1309 the city was chosen by Clement V. as his residence, and from that time till 1377 was the papal seat.

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Therefore, Clement V was forced to fall back on the expedient plea of solicitude for the public good.

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The Pope (Clement V.) committed the glaring absurdity of making a provisional decree to be executed in perpetuity.

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