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Boniface VIII
Also called: Pope Boniface VIII
Pope from 1294 to 1303 who claimed supremacy over secular rulers and was seized at Anagni by agents of Philip IV of France
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In 1302 King Philip IV of France, to stand against Pope Boniface VIII, gathered representatives of the clergy, nobility and commons in the first Estates General.
People who appear alongside
- Philip IV of France1268 – 1314
King of France from 1285 to 1314 (“the Fair”) who summoned the Estates General against Pope Boniface VIII and had the papacy moved to Avignon
Themes this person appears in
- Late Medieval Europe and the Renaissance1077 – 1517
From Canossa to the eve of the Reformation — papal power at its height and in decline, towns and parliaments, royal power growing through the Hundred Years’ War and the Black Death, and the Renaissance and printing