HIST-308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Pope Urban Iv, Middle Ages, Western Schism
8 Nov 2020
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People looked at the institutional church for continuity. Political order had evaporated before in the early middle ages. The church still faced some struggles since innocent iii. Later popes like gregory ix and innocent iv struggled to contain hre frederick ii: hohenstaufen. With their collapse after frederick ii"s death, a power vacuum existed. Newly empowered valois kings of france wanted to step up. In mid 1250s, there were more french popes. Some saw this as growing influence of french kings over the pope"s political power: boniface viii. This came to a head with boniface viii. He pushed back against philip iv the fair. This lead to a french invasion of italy. Boniface took a firm stance against philip"s plans to tax french churches. He imprisoned boniface and tortured him near to death. With boniface"s death, the french cemented their grip on the papacy. Popes reigned out of the papal palace in avignon.
