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Also Known As Jacques Fournier
Born France
Died April 25, 1342 • Avignon • France
Title / Office pope (1334-1342)
Notable Works “Benedictus Deus”
Subjects Of Study Beatific Vision
Role In Avignon papacy

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John XXII, contemporary silver coin; in the coin collection of the Vatican Library
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Blessed Urban V
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Innocent VI
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Sylvester II, detail from the ivory vessel used at the consecration of Otto III, 996; in the Domschatzkammer des Aachener Domes, Aachen, Ger.
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Clement IV, detail from a fresco, c. 1270; in Tour Ferraude, Pernes-Les-Fontaines, Fr.
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Blessed Innocent V
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Lucius III
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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.
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