Urban Vi's Attempt To Eliminate The Great Schism In Rome

In 1305, Philip IV convinced the body of Cardinals to appoint a French archbishop as the new pope. Clement V, the recently appointed pope, moved from Rome to the city of Avignon in France. The transfer to Avignon exceedingly enfeebled the Church. When reformers eventually attempted to relocate the papacy back to Rome, yet, the outcome was surprisingly severe. In 1378, Pope Gregory XI passed away while paying a visit to Rome. The body of Cardinals then gathered in Rome to select an inheritor. The cardinals proclaimed that an Italian had been selected, Pope Urban VI. Numerous cardinals remorse their selection instantly. Urban VI’s eagerness to improve and his conceited character made the cardinals select a 2nd pope in a period of months. They selected Robert of Geneva, who talked French. He obtained the name Clement VII. At that time there were …show more content…
Overall, there was a total of 3 popes, the Avignon pope, the Roman pope, and a third pope chosen by an earlier committee at Pisa. With the support of the Holy Roman Emperor, the committee enforced all 3 popes to quit. In 1417, the committee selected a new pope, Martin V, terminating the Great Schism, but leaving the papacy substantially debilitated. Furthermore, the plague had begun in Asia. Roaming commerce paths, it contaminated a portion of Asia, the Muslim world, and Europe. In 1347, a convoy of Genoese trading boats arrived in Sicily bearing bubonic plague (the Black Death). The illness wiped through Italy. From Italy it went through commerce paths to Germany, France, England, Spain and other portions of Europe and North Africa. The Black Death took around four years to end up almost in every area of Europe. Some regions fled intact, yet others, approximately two-thirds to three-quarters of those who got the illness passed away. The bubonic plague killed nearly 25 million Europeans and many more millions in Asia and North