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Pope Clement VI

Pope Clement VI (Latin: Clemens VI; 1291 – 6 December 1352), born Pierre Roger,[1] was head of the Catholic Church from 7 May 1342 to his death, in December 1352. He was the fourth Avignon pope. Clement reigned during the first visitation of the Black Death (1348–1350), during which he granted remission of sins to all who died of the plague.


Clement VI
Bishop of Rome
ChurchCatholic Church
Papacy began7 May 1342
Papacy ended6 December 1352
PredecessorBenedict XII
SuccessorInnocent VI
Orders
Consecration1329
Created cardinal18 December 1338
by Benedict XII
Personal details
Born
Pierre Roger

1291
Died6 December 1352(1352-12-06) (aged 60–61)
Avignon, Papal States
Coat of arms
Other popes named Clement
Papal styles of
Pope Clement VI
Reference styleHis Holiness
Spoken styleYour Holiness
Religious styleHoly Father
Posthumous styleNone

Roger steadfastly resisted temporal encroachments on the Church's ecclesiastical jurisdiction and, as Clement VI, entrenched French dominance of the Church and opened its coffers to enhance the regal splendour of the Papacy. He recruited composers and music theorists for his court, including figures associated with the then-innovative Ars Nova style of France and the Low Countries.

Early life edit

Birth and family edit

Pierre Roger (also spelled Rogier and Rosiers) was born in the château of Maumont, today part of the commune of Rosiers-d'Égletons, Corrèze, in Limousin, France, the son of the lord of Maumont-Rosiers-d'Égletons. He had an elder brother, Guillaume, who married three times and had thirteen children; and a younger brother, Hugues, who became Cardinal Priest of S. Lorenzo in Damaso and who could have become pope in 1362. Pierre also had two sisters: Delphine, who married Jacques de Besse; and Alienor, who married Jacques de la Jugie. His brother Guillaume became Seigneur de Chambon, thanks to his wife's dowry, and, with the benefit of his papal brother's influence on King Philip VI, became Vicomte de Beaufort.[2]

Monk and scholar edit

Roger entered the Benedictine order[3] as a boy in 1301, at the Abbey of La Chaise-Dieu in the diocese of Clermont in the Auvergne.[4] After six years there, he was directed to higher studies by the Bishop of Le Puy, Jean de Cumenis, and his own abbot, Hugues d'Arc.[5] In 1307 he took up studies in Paris at the College de Sorbonne, where he entered the Collège de Narbonne. To support him, beyond what was supplied by his bishop and his abbot, he was granted the post of Prior of St. Pantaléon in the diocese of Limoges.[6] In the summer of 1323, after Pierre had been studying both theology and canon law[7] in Paris for sixteen years, the Chancellor of Paris was ordered by Pope John XXII, on the recommendation of King Charles IV, to confer on him the doctorate in Theology, a chair, and a license to teach.[8] Pierre was in his thirty-first year.[9] He lectured publicly on the Sententiae of Peter Lombard, and defended and promoted the works of Thomas Aquinas. He was appalled by the Defensor Pacis of Marsilius of Padua, and wrote a treatise in 1325 condemning its principles and defending Pope John XXII.[10]

He was granted the priory of St. Baudil, a dependency of the Abbey of La Chaise-Dieu, on 24 April 1324, at the personal order of Pope John XXII; and then, on 23 June 1326, he was named Abbot of Fécamp, a royal abbey and one of the most important monasteries in France. He held the position until 1329.[11]

Pierre Roger was called to Avignon through the influence of his friend and protector, Cardinal Pierre de Mortemart (who was named a cardinal on 18 December 1327), both of whom were close to King Charles IV.[12] Unfortunately, King Charles IV died on 1 February 1328, the last Capetian king of France in the direct line.

As Abbot of Fécamp, and therefore a feudal subject of Edward III, Pierre was assigned the task in 1328 of summoning Edward III of England to pay homage to Philip VI of France for the duchy of Aquitaine.[13] He received no reply, however, from King Edward, and was forced to return to France, his mission unaccomplished.[14]

Episcopacy edit

On 3 December 1328[15] Peter Roger was named Bishop of Arras, in which capacity he became a royal councilor of King Philip VI.[16] He held the diocese of Arras only until 24 November 1329, less than a year, when he was promoted to the Archdiocese of Sens.[17] He held the Archbishopric of Sens for one year and one month, until his promotion to the See of Rouen on 14 December 1330.[18]

In 1329, while Pierre Roger was still Archbishop-elect of Sens, a major assembly of the French Clergy was held at Vincennes in the presence of King Philip VI (1328–1350), to deal with issues involving the judicial powers of ecclesiastical authorities. Many propositions were put forward against ecclesiastical jurisdiction, which were ably argued by Pierre de Cugnières (Petrus de Cugneriis). Pierre Roger made the rejoinders on 22 December 1329, on behalf of the ecclesiastical authority.[19]

When Pierre Roger became Archbishop of Rouen in December 1330, he was expected to swear allegiance to his feudal overlord. King Philip VI had recently given his son Jean the Dukedom of Normandy as an apanage, and Pierre was worried about what might happen if someone other than a member of the French royal family might become Duke of Normandy. He therefore asked the King for time to consider his position, but the King was firm and seized the temporalities of the Archbishop. Pierre was forced to go to Paris, where an agreement was worked out that, should someone other than a member of the royal family become Duke, then the Archbishop would swear fealty directly to the King.[20]

As Archbishop of Rouen, Roger was one of the Peers of France and he was a member of the embassy sent by King Philip to his son John, in 1333, to swear in their name to take the cross and serve in a crusade in the Holy Land. Later in the year, in Paris in the Prés des Clercs, the King received the cross personally from the hands of Archbishop Roger.[21]

It is said that he was promoted to the office of Chancellor of France,[3] though there is no documentary proof.[22] The earliest claim that he was Chancellor is made by Alfonso Chacon (Ciaconius) (1530–1599).[23][24]

In 1333, the issue of the beatific vision, which had been under discussion since a sermon of Pope John XXII in 1329, reached a serious stage.[25] The French Royal Court had been hearing complaints from various quarters, and the King and Queen finally decided to seek competent advice. The Pope knew that the University of Paris was hostile to his ideas, and so he sent Gerard Odonis, the Minister General of the Franciscans,[26] and a Dominican preacher, to Paris to preach the Pope's views in public. King Philip responded to the general indignation by summoning the Masters of Theology of the University to Vincennes just before Christmas 1334, where it appeared that there was general agreement against the Pope. The King privately informed the Pope of their opinions, but the Pope harshly responded to the King that he should stop favoring an opinion which the Pope had not yet definitively settled. The Pope ordered the Archbishop of Rouen, Pierre Roger, to set the Pope's view down in writing and explain it to the King. Ironically, Pierre Roger was not on the Pope's side of the argument. A committee, which included Archbishop Roger, the theologian Pierre de la Palud (Petrus Paludensis), the Chancellor of France Guillaume de Sainte-Maure, the Archdeacon of Rouen Jean de Polenciac, and others, attempted to talk the Pope out of his notions.[24] Early in 1334 Pope John XXII informed the King that he had ordered the Cardinals and prelates and Doctors of theology and of Canon Law at the Papal Court to look into the propositions thoroughly and report to him their findings.[27] John XXII was attempting to save face by placing the matter in the hands of a committee, but in the end, on his deathbed, he was compelled to repudiate his opinions, which were formally condemned by his successor, Benedict XII.[28]

On 14 April 1335, Pierre Roger's friend and patron, Cardinal Pierre de Mortemart died, naming Pierre Roger as one of the executors of his Testament.[29]

In September 1335 Archbishop Roger held a provincial council at Rouen in the Priory of Nôtre-Dame-du Pré (later called Bonne-nouvelle).[30] Two of his bishops were present, the other four were represented by procurators. The cathedral chapters of the province and the abbots of monasteries were invited as well.[31] The council issued a dozen canons, urging the lower clergy to be diligent in their assigned duties. The most notable item was the encouragement given to bishops to facilitate the business of those who wished to join the King on crusade.

Cardinalate edit

Pierre Roger was created a Cardinal Priest by Pope Benedict XII (1334–1342) on 18 December 1338, in his only Consistory for the creation of cardinals. He created six new cardinals: four were fellow monks (two Benedictines, a Cistercian, and a Mercedarian); one was from Rimini, the rest from southern France. Four were lawyers, two were theologians. One died before he received the red hat, and was replaced by another candidate. Pierre Roger entered the Curia in Avignon for the first time on 5 May 1339, and received the titulus of Santi Nereo e Achilleo.[32]

Papacy edit

Cardinal Napoleone Orsini died during Lent of 1342, on 23 March. The funeral took place on Monday in Holy Week in the Franciscan church in Avignon, and the funeral sermon was preached by Cardinal Pierre Roger.[33] A month later, on 25 April 1342, Pope Benedict XII died in the Papal Palace in Avignon. King Philip VI immediately sent his eldest son, Prince John, to press the candidacy of Pierre Roger, but he arrived too late to have any effect.[34] Eighteen of the nineteen cardinals assembled for the Conclave to elect his successor. Fourteen were French, three were Italian, one was Spanish. Only Cardinal Bertrand de Montfavez, who was ill with podagra (gout), was unable to attend. The Conclave began on Sunday, 5 May 1342, and on the morning of Tuesday, 7 May, agreement was reached. Two cardinals wrote to King Edward III of England on 8 May that the election had been accomplished "with no preliminary politicking and with only Divine Inspiration."[35] Cardinal Pierre Roger was chosen to succeed Benedict XII as pope.[36] He was crowned on Pentecost Sunday, 19 May, in the church of the Dominicans, the largest church in Avignon. Present were Prince John of France, Duke of Normandy; Jacques, Duke of Burgundy, Imbert, Dauphin of Vienne, and many others. Cardinal Roger chose the regnal name Clement VI.

During the season of Pentecost immediately following his coronation, as Peter de Herenthal writes,[37] when a new Pope customarily gratifies the expectations of his family, his followers, his supporters, his cardinals, and the Roman Curia, Pope Clement promised gifts to every cleric who presented himself at Avignon within two months.[38] Such a multitude of poor clerics appeared in Avignon that a computation was made that the number of poor clerics in all the dioceses of the world was around 100,000, a number which Peter de Herenthal was quite prepared to accept. When Clement VI, at the very beginning of his pontificate was making reservations of abbacies and prelatures, and declaring elections in monasteries and Chapters void, in order to acquire benefices for papal use in granting favors, it was intimated to him that his predecessors had not engaged in reservations of such a sort. Clement is said to have replied, "Our predecessors did not know how to be pope."[39]

New cardinals edit

One of the greatest ways in which a pope can reward his supporters is to raise them to the cardinalate. On 20 September 1342, four months after his coronation, Clement VI held a Consistory for the creation of cardinals. He appointed ten prelates, including three nephews, Hugues Roger, Ademar Roberti[40] and Bernard de la Tour d'Auvergne.[41] He also elevated Guy of Boulogne, the archbishop of Lyon and son of Count Robert VII of Auvergne, and Gerard de Daumar, the master-general of the Dominicans and a papal cousin,[42] who died a year after his creation, on 27 September 1343. Five of his appointments were from his own native area of Limoges and one from Périgueux. Only one was Italian, Andrea Ghini Malpighi, a Florentine, who died on 2 June 1343. The College of Cardinals was now thoroughly French, with a strong accent of the Auvergne.[43]

On 19 May 1344 the two new cardinals who had died were replaced by two more Frenchmen: the Provençal Pierre Bertrand, the nephew of Cardinal Pierre Bertrand; and Nicolas de Besse, yet another papal nephew.[43]

Like his immediate predecessors, Clement was devoted to France, and he demonstrated his French sympathies by refusing a solemn invitation to return to Rome from the city's people, as well as from the poet Petrarch. To placate the Romans, however, Clement VI issued the bull Unigenitus (1343) on 27 January 1343,[44][45] reducing the interval between one Great Jubilee and the next from 100 years to 50 years. In the document he elaborated for the first time the power of the pope in the use of indulgences.[46] This document would later be used by Cardinal Cajetan in the examination of Martin Luther and his 95 Theses in his trial at Augsburg in 1518.[46] By then, Unigenitus was firmly fixed in Canon Law, having been added in the collection called Extravagantes.[47]

On 23 February 1343 Pope Clement appointed Pons Saturninus as his "Provisor of Works of the Palace", thereby beginning a program of construction and decoration that continued throughout his reign. It was immediately clear that the Pope had no intention of returning to Rome, and that he intended to provide offices and quarters for the various organs of the Roman Curia in the Palace. Pope Benedict XII, his predecessor, had built a palace, sufficiently accommodating for a Cistercian monk, but Pierre Roger had spent much of his career at the French Court and had imbibed its tastes for far greater display and ceremony. The Pope was, after all, a sovereign, and Clement intended to live and work in an appropriate state. He commissioned the new Tower of the Garde-Robe, the Audience (for the Auditors of the Rota), the new Papal Chapel and the grand staircase that led to it, and the Tour de la Gache (where the Audientia contradictarum, the appellate court for countersuits, had its offices). He was also responsible for the two new entrance façades.[48]

He also purchased the sovereignty of Avignon from Queen Joan I of Naples in 1348 for the sum of 80,000 crowns.[49]

The Black Death edit

Clement VI was on the papal throne when the Black Death first struck Europe in 1347. This pandemic swept through Asia and the Middle East and into Europe between 1347 and 1350, and is believed to have killed between a third and two-thirds of Europe's population. During the plague, Clement attributed the plague to divine wrath.[50] But he also sought the opinions of astrologers for an explanation. Johannes de Muris was among the team "of three who drew up a treatise explaining the plague of 1348 by the conjunction of Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars in 1341"[51] Clement VI's physicians advised him that surrounding himself with torches would block the plague. However, he soon became skeptical of this recommendation and stayed in Avignon supervising sick care, burials, and the pastoral care of the dying.[52] He never contracted the disease, even though there was so much death around him that the cities ran out of ground for cemeteries, and he had to consecrate the entire Rhône River so that it could be considered holy ground and bodies could be thrown into it.[53] One of Pope Clement's physicians, Gui de Chauliac,[54] later wrote a book called the Chirurgia magna (1363), in which he correctly distinguished between bubonic and pneumonic plague, based on his own observations of his patients and himself.

Perhaps feeling the pressure of mortality, having lost no fewer than six cardinals in the year 1348 alone,[55] Pope Clement VI named a new cardinal on 29 May 1348, his nephew and namesake, Pierre Roger de Beaufort, who was not yet eighteen years old.[56] On 17 December 1350, he added twelve more cardinals, nine of them French and only three from Limoges, including two relatives, Guillaume d'Aigrefeuille and Pierre de Cros.[57]

Suspicion fell on the Jews for the plague, and pogroms erupted around Europe. Clement issued two papal bulls in 1348 (6 July and 26 September), the latter named Quamvis Perfidiam, which condemned the violence and said those who blamed the plague on the Jews had been "seduced by that liar, the Devil."[58] He went on to emphasise that "It cannot be true that the Jews, by such a heinous crime, are the cause or occasion of the plague, because through many parts of the world the same plague, by the hidden judgment of God, has afflicted and afflicts the Jews themselves and many other races who have never lived alongside them."[59] He urged clergy to take action to protect Jews as he had done.

Pope and Empire edit

Clement continued the struggle of his predecessors with Holy Roman Emperor Louis IV. On 13 April 1346, after protracted negotiations, he excommunicated the Emperor, and directed the election of Charles IV. After the death of Louis in October 1347 Charles received general recognition, ending the schism which had long divided Germany.[60]

Clement proclaimed a crusade in 1343, but nothing was accomplished beyond a naval attack on Smyrna on 29 October 1344.[60] He also had a role in the Hungarian invasion of the Kingdom of Naples, which was a papal fief; the contest between Louis I of Hungary and Joanna I of Naples, accused of ordering the assassination of her husband and the former's brother, concluded in 1348 in a trial held in Avignon, at which she was acquitted.[61] Among the other benefits, Clement took advantage of the situation to obtain by her the rights over the city of Avignon.[60]

Pope Clement was also involved in disputes with King Edward III of England as a result of the latter's encroachments on ecclesiastical jurisdiction. He also faced problems with the kings of Castile and Aragon. His negotiations for reunion with the Armenians[62] and the Byzantine emperor, John VI Kantakouzenos, turned out to be fruitless.[60]

In Italy the Papacy faced a serious challenge to its authority with the commencement of Cola di Rienzo's agitation in Rome. Pope Clement had appointed Cola to a civil position (Senator) at Rome, and, although at first approving of Rienzo's establishment of the tribunate, he later realized the implications of a permanent antagonist to papal government in the form of a popularly elected Tribune, and sent a Papal Legate who excommunicated Rienzo and, with the help of the aristocratic faction, drove him from the city in December 1347.[60]

Poland and Bohemia edit

Clement also had warned King Casimir III of Poland, who was already under an interdict laid against him by the bishop of Kraków and the Apostolic See, because he had oppressed the Church of Kraków with intolerable burdens and then harassed the clergy who observed the interdict, that he was attracting more severe penalties to himself.[63] In 1345 Clement sent a nuncio to King Casimir and King John of Bohemia, soliciting them to make peace between themselves, and threatening that, if they rejected his pleas, he would anathematize them and bar them from the sacraments.[64]

Responding to numerous complaints against the highhanded behavior of the archbishop of Mainz, Prague's metropolitan, Clement made Prague an archbishopric on 30 April 1344, and assigned the Bishopric of Olomouc as its suffragan. The archbishop of Prague acquired the right to crown the king of Bohemia.[65]

Private life edit

Unlike the Cistercian Benedict XII, the Benedictine Clement VI was devoted to an openhanded and generous lifestyle, and the treasury which he inherited from his predecessor made that lifestyle possible. He claimed to have "lived as a sinner among sinners" in his own words.[66] During his pontificate, he added a new chapel to the Papal Palace and dedicated it to St. Peter. He commissioned the artist Matteo Giovanetti of Viterbo to paint common hunting and fishing scenes on the walls of the existing papal chapels, and purchased enormous tapestries to decorate the stone walls. To bring good music to the celebrations, he recruited musicians from northern France, especially from Liège, who cultivated the Ars Nova style. He liked music so much that he kept composers and theorists close to him throughout his entire pontificate, Philippe de Vitry being among the more famous. The first two payments he made after his coronation were to musicians.[67]

Death, burial, and monument edit

 
Tomb of Clement VI

Clement had been ill for some time in 1352, not just with kidney stones, which had troubled him for many years, but also with a tumor, which broke out into an abscess with fever during his last week.[68] Pope Clement VI died on 6 December 1352, in the eleventh year of his reign. After his death, his Almoner, Pierre de Froideville, distributed the sum of 400 livres to the poor of Avignon, and on the day of the solemn funeral another 40 livres were distributed during the procession to the Cathedral to the poor who were present. Clement left the reputation of "a fine gentleman, a prince munificent to profusion, a patron of the arts and learning, but no saint".[69] His body was placed on exhibit in the Notre Dame-des-Doms, where it was buried temporarily. Three months later, the body was transferred in a splendid procession to the abbey of La Chaise-Dieu, passing through Le Puy on 6 April.[70] On arrival, the coffin was placed in the church of the Carmelites. Later in April it was permanently interred in a tomb in the center of the Choir of the Church.[71] The funeral procession was accompanied by his brother Count William Roger of Beaufort, and by the five cardinals who were his family members: Hugues Roger, Guillaume de la Jugié, Nicolas de Besse, Pierre Roger de Beaufort, and Guillaume d' Aigrefeuille.[72] In 1562, the tomb was attacked by the Huguenots and severely damaged, losing the forty-four statues of Clement's relatives which surrounded the sarcophagus. Only the sarcophagus and tomb cover survived, making the present tomb a mere shadow of its former architectural and decorative glory.[73] The tomb cover, in white marble,[74] was made by master sculptor Pierre Boye, and his two assistants Jean de Sanholis and Jean David. The construction of the tomb began in 1346, and was completed in 1351. It cost 3,500 florins, to which were added 120 écus d'or, as a gratuity for the master sculptor.[75]

See also edit

References edit

Citation edit

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External links edit

  •   Media related to Clement VI at Wikimedia Commons
  •   Works by or about Clement VI at Wikisource
  • Bernard Guillemain (2000), "Clemente VI," Enciclopedia dei Papi (Treccani) [in Italian]
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pope, clement, latin, clemens, 1291, december, 1352, born, pierre, roger, head, catholic, church, from, 1342, death, december, 1352, fourth, avignon, pope, clement, reigned, during, first, visitation, black, death, 1348, 1350, during, which, granted, remission. Pope Clement VI Latin Clemens VI 1291 6 December 1352 born Pierre Roger 1 was head of the Catholic Church from 7 May 1342 to his death in December 1352 He was the fourth Avignon pope Clement reigned during the first visitation of the Black Death 1348 1350 during which he granted remission of sins to all who died of the plague PopeClement VIBishop of RomeFresco by Matteo GiovanettiChurchCatholic ChurchPapacy began7 May 1342Papacy ended6 December 1352PredecessorBenedict XIISuccessorInnocent VIOrdersConsecration1329Created cardinal18 December 1338by Benedict XIIPersonal detailsBornPierre Roger1291Maumont Rosiers d Egletons Limousin Kingdom of FranceDied6 December 1352 1352 12 06 aged 60 61 Avignon Papal StatesCoat of armsOther popes named ClementPapal styles of Pope Clement VIReference styleHis HolinessSpoken styleYour HolinessReligious styleHoly FatherPosthumous styleNoneRoger steadfastly resisted temporal encroachments on the Church s ecclesiastical jurisdiction and as Clement VI entrenched French dominance of the Church and opened its coffers to enhance the regal splendour of the Papacy He recruited composers and music theorists for his court including figures associated with the then innovative Ars Nova style of France and the Low Countries Contents 1 Early life 1 1 Birth and family 1 2 Monk and scholar 2 Episcopacy 2 1 Cardinalate 3 Papacy 3 1 New cardinals 3 2 The Black Death 3 3 Pope and Empire 3 4 Poland and Bohemia 3 5 Private life 3 6 Death burial and monument 4 See also 5 References 5 1 Citation 5 2 Bibliography 5 3 Acknowledgments 6 External linksEarly life editBirth and family edit Pierre Roger also spelled Rogier and Rosiers was born in the chateau of Maumont today part of the commune of Rosiers d Egletons Correze in Limousin France the son of the lord of Maumont Rosiers d Egletons He had an elder brother Guillaume who married three times and had thirteen children and a younger brother Hugues who became Cardinal Priest of S Lorenzo in Damaso and who could have become pope in 1362 Pierre also had two sisters Delphine who married Jacques de Besse and Alienor who married Jacques de la Jugie His brother Guillaume became Seigneur de Chambon thanks to his wife s dowry and with the benefit of his papal brother s influence on King Philip VI became Vicomte de Beaufort 2 Monk and scholar edit Roger entered the Benedictine order 3 as a boy in 1301 at the Abbey of La Chaise Dieu in the diocese of Clermont in the Auvergne 4 After six years there he was directed to higher studies by the Bishop of Le Puy Jean de Cumenis and his own abbot Hugues d Arc 5 In 1307 he took up studies in Paris at the College de Sorbonne where he entered the College de Narbonne To support him beyond what was supplied by his bishop and his abbot he was granted the post of Prior of St Pantaleon in the diocese of Limoges 6 In the summer of 1323 after Pierre had been studying both theology and canon law 7 in Paris for sixteen years the Chancellor of Paris was ordered by Pope John XXII on the recommendation of King Charles IV to confer on him the doctorate in Theology a chair and a license to teach 8 Pierre was in his thirty first year 9 He lectured publicly on the Sententiae of Peter Lombard and defended and promoted the works of Thomas Aquinas He was appalled by the Defensor Pacis of Marsilius of Padua and wrote a treatise in 1325 condemning its principles and defending Pope John XXII 10 He was granted the priory of St Baudil a dependency of the Abbey of La Chaise Dieu on 24 April 1324 at the personal order of Pope John XXII and then on 23 June 1326 he was named Abbot of Fecamp a royal abbey and one of the most important monasteries in France He held the position until 1329 11 Pierre Roger was called to Avignon through the influence of his friend and protector Cardinal Pierre de Mortemart who was named a cardinal on 18 December 1327 both of whom were close to King Charles IV 12 Unfortunately King Charles IV died on 1 February 1328 the last Capetian king of France in the direct line As Abbot of Fecamp and therefore a feudal subject of Edward III Pierre was assigned the task in 1328 of summoning Edward III of England to pay homage to Philip VI of France for the duchy of Aquitaine 13 He received no reply however from King Edward and was forced to return to France his mission unaccomplished 14 Episcopacy editOn 3 December 1328 15 Peter Roger was named Bishop of Arras in which capacity he became a royal councilor of King Philip VI 16 He held the diocese of Arras only until 24 November 1329 less than a year when he was promoted to the Archdiocese of Sens 17 He held the Archbishopric of Sens for one year and one month until his promotion to the See of Rouen on 14 December 1330 18 In 1329 while Pierre Roger was still Archbishop elect of Sens a major assembly of the French Clergy was held at Vincennes in the presence of King Philip VI 1328 1350 to deal with issues involving the judicial powers of ecclesiastical authorities Many propositions were put forward against ecclesiastical jurisdiction which were ably argued by Pierre de Cugnieres Petrus de Cugneriis Pierre Roger made the rejoinders on 22 December 1329 on behalf of the ecclesiastical authority 19 When Pierre Roger became Archbishop of Rouen in December 1330 he was expected to swear allegiance to his feudal overlord King Philip VI had recently given his son Jean the Dukedom of Normandy as an apanage and Pierre was worried about what might happen if someone other than a member of the French royal family might become Duke of Normandy He therefore asked the King for time to consider his position but the King was firm and seized the temporalities of the Archbishop Pierre was forced to go to Paris where an agreement was worked out that should someone other than a member of the royal family become Duke then the Archbishop would swear fealty directly to the King 20 As Archbishop of Rouen Roger was one of the Peers of France and he was a member of the embassy sent by King Philip to his son John in 1333 to swear in their name to take the cross and serve in a crusade in the Holy Land Later in the year in Paris in the Pres des Clercs the King received the cross personally from the hands of Archbishop Roger 21 It is said that he was promoted to the office of Chancellor of France 3 though there is no documentary proof 22 The earliest claim that he was Chancellor is made by Alfonso Chacon Ciaconius 1530 1599 23 24 In 1333 the issue of the beatific vision which had been under discussion since a sermon of Pope John XXII in 1329 reached a serious stage 25 The French Royal Court had been hearing complaints from various quarters and the King and Queen finally decided to seek competent advice The Pope knew that the University of Paris was hostile to his ideas and so he sent Gerard Odonis the Minister General of the Franciscans 26 and a Dominican preacher to Paris to preach the Pope s views in public King Philip responded to the general indignation by summoning the Masters of Theology of the University to Vincennes just before Christmas 1334 where it appeared that there was general agreement against the Pope The King privately informed the Pope of their opinions but the Pope harshly responded to the King that he should stop favoring an opinion which the Pope had not yet definitively settled The Pope ordered the Archbishop of Rouen Pierre Roger to set the Pope s view down in writing and explain it to the King Ironically Pierre Roger was not on the Pope s side of the argument A committee which included Archbishop Roger the theologian Pierre de la Palud Petrus Paludensis the Chancellor of France Guillaume de Sainte Maure the Archdeacon of Rouen Jean de Polenciac and others attempted to talk the Pope out of his notions 24 Early in 1334 Pope John XXII informed the King that he had ordered the Cardinals and prelates and Doctors of theology and of Canon Law at the Papal Court to look into the propositions thoroughly and report to him their findings 27 John XXII was attempting to save face by placing the matter in the hands of a committee but in the end on his deathbed he was compelled to repudiate his opinions which were formally condemned by his successor Benedict XII 28 On 14 April 1335 Pierre Roger s friend and patron Cardinal Pierre de Mortemart died naming Pierre Roger as one of the executors of his Testament 29 In September 1335 Archbishop Roger held a provincial council at Rouen in the Priory of Notre Dame du Pre later called Bonne nouvelle 30 Two of his bishops were present the other four were represented by procurators The cathedral chapters of the province and the abbots of monasteries were invited as well 31 The council issued a dozen canons urging the lower clergy to be diligent in their assigned duties The most notable item was the encouragement given to bishops to facilitate the business of those who wished to join the King on crusade Cardinalate edit Pierre Roger was created a Cardinal Priest by Pope Benedict XII 1334 1342 on 18 December 1338 in his only Consistory for the creation of cardinals He created six new cardinals four were fellow monks two Benedictines a Cistercian and a Mercedarian one was from Rimini the rest from southern France Four were lawyers two were theologians One died before he received the red hat and was replaced by another candidate Pierre Roger entered the Curia in Avignon for the first time on 5 May 1339 and received the titulus of Santi Nereo e Achilleo 32 Papacy editCardinal Napoleone Orsini died during Lent of 1342 on 23 March The funeral took place on Monday in Holy Week in the Franciscan church in Avignon and the funeral sermon was preached by Cardinal Pierre Roger 33 A month later on 25 April 1342 Pope Benedict XII died in the Papal Palace in Avignon King Philip VI immediately sent his eldest son Prince John to press the candidacy of Pierre Roger but he arrived too late to have any effect 34 Eighteen of the nineteen cardinals assembled for the Conclave to elect his successor Fourteen were French three were Italian one was Spanish Only Cardinal Bertrand de Montfavez who was ill with podagra gout was unable to attend The Conclave began on Sunday 5 May 1342 and on the morning of Tuesday 7 May agreement was reached Two cardinals wrote to King Edward III of England on 8 May that the election had been accomplished with no preliminary politicking and with only Divine Inspiration 35 Cardinal Pierre Roger was chosen to succeed Benedict XII as pope 36 He was crowned on Pentecost Sunday 19 May in the church of the Dominicans the largest church in Avignon Present were Prince John of France Duke of Normandy Jacques Duke of Burgundy Imbert Dauphin of Vienne and many others Cardinal Roger chose the regnal name Clement VI During the season of Pentecost immediately following his coronation as Peter de Herenthal writes 37 when a new Pope customarily gratifies the expectations of his family his followers his supporters his cardinals and the Roman Curia Pope Clement promised gifts to every cleric who presented himself at Avignon within two months 38 Such a multitude of poor clerics appeared in Avignon that a computation was made that the number of poor clerics in all the dioceses of the world was around 100 000 a number which Peter de Herenthal was quite prepared to accept When Clement VI at the very beginning of his pontificate was making reservations of abbacies and prelatures and declaring elections in monasteries and Chapters void in order to acquire benefices for papal use in granting favors it was intimated to him that his predecessors had not engaged in reservations of such a sort Clement is said to have replied Our predecessors did not know how to be pope 39 New cardinals edit One of the greatest ways in which a pope can reward his supporters is to raise them to the cardinalate On 20 September 1342 four months after his coronation Clement VI held a Consistory for the creation of cardinals He appointed ten prelates including three nephews Hugues Roger Ademar Roberti 40 and Bernard de la Tour d Auvergne 41 He also elevated Guy of Boulogne the archbishop of Lyon and son of Count Robert VII of Auvergne and Gerard de Daumar the master general of the Dominicans and a papal cousin 42 who died a year after his creation on 27 September 1343 Five of his appointments were from his own native area of Limoges and one from Perigueux Only one was Italian Andrea Ghini Malpighi a Florentine who died on 2 June 1343 The College of Cardinals was now thoroughly French with a strong accent of the Auvergne 43 On 19 May 1344 the two new cardinals who had died were replaced by two more Frenchmen the Provencal Pierre Bertrand the nephew of Cardinal Pierre Bertrand and Nicolas de Besse yet another papal nephew 43 Like his immediate predecessors Clement was devoted to France and he demonstrated his French sympathies by refusing a solemn invitation to return to Rome from the city s people as well as from the poet Petrarch To placate the Romans however Clement VI issued the bull Unigenitus 1343 on 27 January 1343 44 45 reducing the interval between one Great Jubilee and the next from 100 years to 50 years In the document he elaborated for the first time the power of the pope in the use of indulgences 46 This document would later be used by Cardinal Cajetan in the examination of Martin Luther and his 95 Theses in his trial at Augsburg in 1518 46 By then Unigenitus was firmly fixed in Canon Law having been added in the collection called Extravagantes 47 On 23 February 1343 Pope Clement appointed Pons Saturninus as his Provisor of Works of the Palace thereby beginning a program of construction and decoration that continued throughout his reign It was immediately clear that the Pope had no intention of returning to Rome and that he intended to provide offices and quarters for the various organs of the Roman Curia in the Palace Pope Benedict XII his predecessor had built a palace sufficiently accommodating for a Cistercian monk but Pierre Roger had spent much of his career at the French Court and had imbibed its tastes for far greater display and ceremony The Pope was after all a sovereign and Clement intended to live and work in an appropriate state He commissioned the new Tower of the Garde Robe the Audience for the Auditors of the Rota the new Papal Chapel and the grand staircase that led to it and the Tour de la Gache where the Audientia contradictarum the appellate court for countersuits had its offices He was also responsible for the two new entrance facades 48 He also purchased the sovereignty of Avignon from Queen Joan I of Naples in 1348 for the sum of 80 000 crowns 49 The Black Death edit Clement VI was on the papal throne when the Black Death first struck Europe in 1347 This pandemic swept through Asia and the Middle East and into Europe between 1347 and 1350 and is believed to have killed between a third and two thirds of Europe s population During the plague Clement attributed the plague to divine wrath 50 But he also sought the opinions of astrologers for an explanation Johannes de Muris was among the team of three who drew up a treatise explaining the plague of 1348 by the conjunction of Saturn Jupiter and Mars in 1341 51 Clement VI s physicians advised him that surrounding himself with torches would block the plague However he soon became skeptical of this recommendation and stayed in Avignon supervising sick care burials and the pastoral care of the dying 52 He never contracted the disease even though there was so much death around him that the cities ran out of ground for cemeteries and he had to consecrate the entire Rhone River so that it could be considered holy ground and bodies could be thrown into it 53 One of Pope Clement s physicians Gui de Chauliac 54 later wrote a book called the Chirurgia magna 1363 in which he correctly distinguished between bubonic and pneumonic plague based on his own observations of his patients and himself Perhaps feeling the pressure of mortality having lost no fewer than six cardinals in the year 1348 alone 55 Pope Clement VI named a new cardinal on 29 May 1348 his nephew and namesake Pierre Roger de Beaufort who was not yet eighteen years old 56 On 17 December 1350 he added twelve more cardinals nine of them French and only three from Limoges including two relatives Guillaume d Aigrefeuille and Pierre de Cros 57 Suspicion fell on the Jews for the plague and pogroms erupted around Europe Clement issued two papal bulls in 1348 6 July and 26 September the latter named Quamvis Perfidiam which condemned the violence and said those who blamed the plague on the Jews had been seduced by that liar the Devil 58 He went on to emphasise that It cannot be true that the Jews by such a heinous crime are the cause or occasion of the plague because through many parts of the world the same plague by the hidden judgment of God has afflicted and afflicts the Jews themselves and many other races who have never lived alongside them 59 He urged clergy to take action to protect Jews as he had done Pope and Empire edit Clement continued the struggle of his predecessors with Holy Roman Emperor Louis IV On 13 April 1346 after protracted negotiations he excommunicated the Emperor and directed the election of Charles IV After the death of Louis in October 1347 Charles received general recognition ending the schism which had long divided Germany 60 Clement proclaimed a crusade in 1343 but nothing was accomplished beyond a naval attack on Smyrna on 29 October 1344 60 He also had a role in the Hungarian invasion of the Kingdom of Naples which was a papal fief the contest between Louis I of Hungary and Joanna I of Naples accused of ordering the assassination of her husband and the former s brother concluded in 1348 in a trial held in Avignon at which she was acquitted 61 Among the other benefits Clement took advantage of the situation to obtain by her the rights over the city of Avignon 60 Pope Clement was also involved in disputes with King Edward III of England as a result of the latter s encroachments on ecclesiastical jurisdiction He also faced problems with the kings of Castile and Aragon His negotiations for reunion with the Armenians 62 and the Byzantine emperor John VI Kantakouzenos turned out to be fruitless 60 In Italy the Papacy faced a serious challenge to its authority with the commencement of Cola di Rienzo s agitation in Rome Pope Clement had appointed Cola to a civil position Senator at Rome and although at first approving of Rienzo s establishment of the tribunate he later realized the implications of a permanent antagonist to papal government in the form of a popularly elected Tribune and sent a Papal Legate who excommunicated Rienzo and with the help of the aristocratic faction drove him from the city in December 1347 60 Poland and Bohemia edit Clement also had warned King Casimir III of Poland who was already under an interdict laid against him by the bishop of Krakow and the Apostolic See because he had oppressed the Church of Krakow with intolerable burdens and then harassed the clergy who observed the interdict that he was attracting more severe penalties to himself 63 In 1345 Clement sent a nuncio to King Casimir and King John of Bohemia soliciting them to make peace between themselves and threatening that if they rejected his pleas he would anathematize them and bar them from the sacraments 64 Responding to numerous complaints against the highhanded behavior of the archbishop of Mainz Prague s metropolitan Clement made Prague an archbishopric on 30 April 1344 and assigned the Bishopric of Olomouc as its suffragan The archbishop of Prague acquired the right to crown the king of Bohemia 65 Private life edit Unlike the Cistercian Benedict XII the Benedictine Clement VI was devoted to an openhanded and generous lifestyle and the treasury which he inherited from his predecessor made that lifestyle possible He claimed to have lived as a sinner among sinners in his own words 66 During his pontificate he added a new chapel to the Papal Palace and dedicated it to St Peter He commissioned the artist Matteo Giovanetti of Viterbo to paint common hunting and fishing scenes on the walls of the existing papal chapels and purchased enormous tapestries to decorate the stone walls To bring good music to the celebrations he recruited musicians from northern France especially from Liege who cultivated the Ars Nova style He liked music so much that he kept composers and theorists close to him throughout his entire pontificate Philippe de Vitry being among the more famous The first two payments he made after his coronation were to musicians 67 Death burial and monument edit nbsp Tomb of Clement VIClement had been ill for some time in 1352 not just with kidney stones which had troubled him for many years but also with a tumor which broke out into an abscess with fever during his last week 68 Pope Clement VI died on 6 December 1352 in the eleventh year of his reign After his death his Almoner Pierre de Froideville distributed the sum of 400 livres to the poor of Avignon and on the day of the solemn funeral another 40 livres were distributed during the procession to the Cathedral to the poor who were present Clement left the reputation of a fine gentleman a prince munificent to profusion a patron of the arts and learning but no saint 69 His body was placed on exhibit in the Notre Dame des Doms where it was buried temporarily Three months later the body was transferred in a splendid procession to the abbey of La Chaise Dieu passing through Le Puy on 6 April 70 On arrival the coffin was placed in the church of the Carmelites Later in April it was permanently interred in a tomb in the center of the Choir of the Church 71 The funeral procession was accompanied by his brother Count William Roger of Beaufort and by the five cardinals who were his family members Hugues Roger Guillaume de la Jugie Nicolas de Besse Pierre Roger de Beaufort and Guillaume d Aigrefeuille 72 In 1562 the tomb was attacked by the Huguenots and severely damaged losing the forty four statues of Clement s relatives which surrounded the sarcophagus Only the sarcophagus and tomb cover survived making the present tomb a mere shadow of its former architectural and decorative glory 73 The tomb cover in white marble 74 was made by master sculptor Pierre Boye and his two assistants Jean de Sanholis and Jean David The construction of the tomb began in 1346 and was completed in 1351 It cost 3 500 florins to which were added 120 ecus d or as a gratuity for the master sculptor 75 See also edit nbsp Biography portal nbsp Christianity portal nbsp History portalList of popes Cardinals created by Clement VI Plague doctor Smyrniote crusadesReferences editCitation edit George L Williams Papal Genealogy The Families and Descendants of the Popes McFarland amp Company Inc 1998 43 Wrigley pp 434 435 a b Richard P McBrien Lives of the Popes The Pontiffs from St Peter to John Paul II HarperCollins 2000 240 Wrigley 1970 p 436 Baluze I p 262 Eubel I p 91 Claude Courtepee Edme Beguillet 1777 Description generale et particuliere du duche de Bourgogne precede de l abrege historique de cette province in French Dijon L N Frantin p 312 Wrigley 1970 p 438 Lutzelschwab pp 47 48 Henri Denifle Chartularium Universitatis Parisiensis Tomus II Paris 1891 no 822 pp 271 272 Wrigley p 439 Baluze I p 262 Wrigley 1970 pp 442 443 Wrigley 1970 p 441 443 Baluze I p 274 Gourdon de Genouillac Henri 1875 Histoire de l abbaye de Fecamp et de ses abbes in French Fecamp A Marinier pp 226 227 Etienne Stephanus Baluze Baluzius 1693 Vitae paparum Avenionensium in Latin Vol Tomus primus Paris apud Franciscum Muguet p 762 Nouvelle edition by 1 G Mollat II Paris 1927 p 264 Wrigley pp 443 444 Jonathan Summation Trial by Battle The Hundred Years War Vol I Faber amp Faber 1990 109 Gallia christiana Tomus XI Paris 1759 p 211 Eubel p 115 Denis de Sainte Marthe Sammarthani 1725 Gallia Christiana In Provincias Ecclesiasticas Distributa Provinciae Cameracensis Coloniensis Ebredunensis in Latin Vol Tomus tertius III Paris Typographia Regia p 336 Eubel I p 448 Eubel I p 425 Baluze I pp 782 783 ed Mollat II pp 284 285 Fisquet p 147 Gallia christiana IX p 77 Francois Duchesne produces evidence showing that Guillaume de Sainte Maure was Chancellor of France from 1329 1334 from 3 March 1334 to 1337 the Chancellor was Guy Baudet Francois Du Chesne 1680 Histoire des chancelliers de France et des gardes de sceaux de France in French Paris Chez l Auteur pp 301 302 315 317 Duchesne allows that Pierre Roger might have been Garde de Sceaux but he relies on the authority of others and has no documentary proof himself for that office or for the Chancellorship The same opinions are shared by Abraham Tessereau 1710 L Histoire chronologique de la Grande Chancellerie de France in French Vol Tome premier Paris Pierre Emery pp 15 16 Chacon Vitae et Res Gestae Pontificum romanorum Tomus secundus 1601 p 710 a b Gallia christiana XI p 77 Jan Ballweg 2001 Konziliare oder papstliche Ordensreform Benedikt XII und die Reformdiskussion im fruhen 14 Jahrhundert in German Mohr Siebeck pp 155 164 ISBN 978 3 16 147413 2 William Duba The Beatific Vision in the Sentences Commentary of Gerard Odonis William Duba Christopher David Schabel 2009 Gerald Odonis Doctor Moralis and Franciscan Minister General Studies in Honour of L M de Rijk Boston Leiden Brill pp 202 217 ISBN 978 90 04 17850 2 Baluze I pp 789 790 ed Mollat II pp 291 292 The Bull Benedictus Deus issued on 29 January 1336 Bullarum diplomatum et privilegiorum sanctorum Romanorum pontificum Taurensis editio Tomus IV Turin 1859 pp 345 347 Gallia christiana XI p 77 It also used to be said that Cardinal de Mortmart had been Chancellor of France this idea was rejected by Baluze I p 763 ed Mollat II p 265 Fisquet p 148 Gian Domenico Mansi 1782 Sacrorum conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio in Latin Vol Tomus vicesimus quintus XXV editio novissima ed Venice Antonio Zatta pp 1037 1046 Eubel I p 17 and n 8 Baluze I pp 600 601 ed Mollat II pp 70 71 G Mollat Les papes d Avignon 2nd edition Paris 1912 p 81 Mollat p 81 and n 1 Thomas Rymer Foedera Conventiones Literae etc editio tertia The Hague 1739 Tomus II pars II p 123 The Cardinals were Annibaldo di Ceccano and Raymond Guillaume des Farges Wrigley John E 1982 The Conclave and the Electors of 1342 Archivum Historiae Pontificiae 20 51 81 JSTOR 23565567 Baluze I pp 310 311 Fisquet pp 149 150 Praedecessores nostri nesciverunt esse Papa This statement has sometimes been generalized to apply to all papal actions quite wrongly and sometimes maliciously It applies to benefices granted by a pope to needy clerics See e g Ann Deeley 1928 Papal Provision and Royal Rights of Patronage in the Early Fourteenth Century The English Historical Review 43 172 497 527 JSTOR 551827 Lutzelschwab p 424 Lutzelschwab pp 437 438 Daniel Antonin Mortier 1907 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