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 Recalcitrant Princes and Great Schism 271 The people of Anagni did resent tlu- first oiitraoe, and rose against Nogaret to liberate Bonifaee, but then Anagni was the Pope's native to^^'ll. The important point to note is that the French King, in this rough treatment of the head of Christendom, was acting with the full approval of his people ; he had summoned a council of the Three Estates of France (lords, church and commons) and gained their consent before proceeding to extremities. Neither in Italy, Germany, nor England was there the slightest general manifestation of dis- appro^'al at this free handling of the sovereign pontiff. The idea of Christendom had deca)-ed until its power o'cr the minds of men had gone. Throughout the fourteenth century the papacy did nothing to recover its moral sway. The next Pope elected, Clement V, was a Frenchman, the choice of King Philip of France. lie never came to Rome. He set up his court in the town of Avignon, which then belonged not to France but to the papal See, though embedded in French territory, and there his successors remained until 1.377, when Pope Gregorj' XI returned to the Vatican palace in Ronae. Rut -w- COSTUMES OF THE BURGUNDIAN NOBUTTY : FLEMISH WORK OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY This series is from casts in the Victoria and Albert Museum of the oiigina] biass statuetles in the Rijks Museum, Amsterdam
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