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Urban V

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noun

  1. Guillaume de Grimoard, c1310–70, French ecclesiastic: pope 1362–70.


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Pope Urban V preached a crusade against the Turks; and Servia, Hungary, Bosnia, and Wallachia leagued themselves to drive the Ottomans out of Europe.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 08 The Later Renaissance: from Gutenberg to the Reformation by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

Pope Urban V claims the tribute which had previously been paid by 392England; an act of parliament resists the demand; it further declares the concessions made by King John to be illegal and invalid.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 by Johnson, Rossiter

Its powers were so marvellous that Pope Urban V thought three of these cakes a fitting gift from himself to the Greek Emperor.

From History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom by White, Andrew Dickson