Urban VI

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noun

1. Bartolomeo Prignano, c1318–89, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1378–89.

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Urban VI British  

noun

1. original name Bartolomeo Prignano ?1318–89, Italian ecclesiastic; pope (1378–89). His policies led to the election of an antipope by the French cardinals, thus beginning the Great Schism in the West

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Urban VI

In 1378, the new pope, Urban VI, announced his intention to move the papacy back to Rome.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020

They announced the election of Urban VI to their brethren who had remained in Avignon.

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

Death of Pope Urban VI; Boniface succeeds; the schism continues.

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

Urban VI was as blind to cautious temporal as to cautious ecclesiastical policy.

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

Castile followed the party of Clement VII., and Portugal that of Urban VI.

From The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. by Juan Antonio Llorente

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