Clement V

noun

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

Clement V

noun

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

Example Sentences

Shortly thereafter, in 1305, a Frenchman, Clement V, was chosen to be the next pope, and the papacy was relocated to Avignon, France.

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Lo and behold, within a year, both Philip IV of France and Pope Clement V were dead.

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The Pope to whom he had to answer, Clement V from Gascony in France, was effectively under the thumb of Philip IV.

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It’s important to note that the King of France, not Pope Clement V, accused the Knights Templar of heresy.

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If this be true he must have been more than human if he did not feel special gratification when, at command of his master, he appeared before Clement V. with a formal accusation of heresy against Boniface, and demanded that the dead pope’s bones be dug up and burned.

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