A History of the Church Volume 4

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 Excerpt: ...was confirmed by the pope. The Bavarian party, which consisted of Henry, archbishop of Virneburg, the son of Lewis, and the Bavarian princes, and the prince palatine of the Rhine, opposed to king Charles, first, Edward, king of England, and when he and Frederic, margrave of Meitzen, declined the offer, they chose Gunter, count of Schwarzburg. He also resigned, for soon after his election he fell into a mortal sickness, in 1349, whereupon Charles, to the displeasure of the pope, caused himself to be crowned at Frankfort and at Aix-la-Chapelle. The schismatical Franciscan friars, who had hitherto found protection in the court of Lewis, and in particular, Occam, now renounced their errors and subjected themselves to the pope. The archbishop of Mentz continued deprived of his rank until the time of his death, in 1353, and Clement saw his perseverance in this long contest crowned, in appearance at least, by a splendid termination. In 1348, he purchased from the impoverished Johanna, queen of Naples, the city of Avignon, which belonged to her as countess of Provence, and Charles IV, as sovereign of the kingdom of Arles, confirmed the transfer of this city and of its territory to the papal see. This acquisition and the nomination of twelve new cardinals, who were principally natives of the south of France, appeared to have ensured the exile of the papal see to an indeterminate time. Clement died in 1352. He acted the part, but not always with success, of mediator and pacificator between the kings of England and of France, of Hungary and of Naples, and between the republics of Venice and Genoa: in 1344, he granted to Lewis De la Cerda, the investiture of the recently discovered, but not yet conquered, Canary Islands, on the condition of paying a yearly tribute. But...