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Also Known As Amédée le Paisible • Amadeus the Peaceful • Felix V • Amedeo il Pacifico
Born 1383 • Chambéry • Savoy
Died January 7, 1451 (aged 68) • Geneva
Title / Office antipope (1439-1449)
House / Dynasty House of Savoy
Amadeus VI
Amadeus VI
count of Savoy
Charles Emmanuel I, detail of a lithograph
Charles Emmanuel I
duke of Savoy
Victor Amadeus II
Victor Amadeus II
king of Sardinia-Piedmont
Emmanuel Philibert, detail of a portrait by G. Vighi; in the Pinacoteca, Turin, Italy
Emmanuel Philibert
duke of Savoy
Amadeus VII
count of Savoy
Charles Emmanuel II
duke of Savoy
Victor Amadeus I
duke of Savoy
Humbert I
count of Savoy
Christopher
duke of Württemberg
Saint Benedict of Aniane
French bishop
Antoine Arnauld
French lawyer
Catherine Arnauld
French nun
Henri Arnauld
French bishop
Melchior de Polignac
French clergyman and statesman
portrait of Charlemagne by Albrecht Dürer
Charlemagne
Holy Roman emperor [747?–814]
John Paul II
St. John Paul II
pope
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: painting of Joan of Arc
St. Joan of Arc
French heroine
St. Peter the Apostle
St. Peter the Apostle
Christian Apostle
Pope Gregory VII, after his expulsion from Rome, laying a ban of excommunication on the clergy “together with the raging king” (Henry IV of Germany), drawing from the 12th-century chronicle of Otto of Freising; in the library of the University of Jena, Germany.
St. Gregory VII
pope
Pope Francis
Francis
pope