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 RIENZO.— THE MAFFREDI. 203 and a crusade was preached against him. In 1364 he made his peace, but in 1372 the perennial quarrel broke out afresh, he was excommunicated by Gregory XI., and in January, 1373, he was summoned to stand another trial for heresy on March 28.* In the same way heresy was the easiest charge to bring against Cola di Kienzo when he disregarded the papal sovereignty over Eome. When he failed to obey the summons to appear he was duly excommunicated for contumacy ; the legate Giovanni, Bishop of Spoleto, held an inquisition on him, and in 1350 he was formally declared a heretic. The decision was sent to the Emperor Charles IV., who held him at that time prisoner in Prague, and who duti- fully despatched him to Avignon. There, on a first examination, he was condemned to death, but he made his peace, and there ap- peared to be an opportunity of using him to advantage ; he was therefore finally pronounced a good Christian, and was sent back to Rome with a legate, f The Maff redi of Faenza afford a case very similar to that of the Yisconti. In 1345 we find them in high favor with Clement VI. In 1350 they are opposing the papal policy of aggrandizement in Romagnuola. Cited to appear in answer to charges of heresy, they refuse to do so, and in July, 1352, are excommunicated for contu- macy. In June, 1354, Innocent VI. recites their persistent endur- ance of this excommunication, and gives them until October 10 to put in an appearance. On that day he condemns them as contu- macious heretics, declares them deprived of all lands and honors, and subject to the canonical and civil penalties of heresy. To ex- ecute the sentence was not so easy, but in 1356 Innocent offered Louis, King of Hungary, who had shown his zeal against the Ca- 8 ; ann. 1327, No. 2.— Ripoll II. 172 ; VII. 60.— Regest. Clement. PP. V., Romas, 1885, T. I. Proleg. p. ccxiii. — Theiner Monument. Hibern. et Scotor. No. 462, p. 234.— C. 4, Septimo v. 3.— Mag. Bull. Rom. I. 204.— Baluz. et Mansi III. 227.— UghellilV. 294-5, 314.— Raynald. ann. 1362, No. 13; ann. 1363, No. 2,4; ann. 1372, No. 1 ; ann. 1373, No. 10, 12. In spite of the decision of Benedict, Matteo and his sons, Galeazzo, Marco, and Stefano, were still unburied in 1353, when the remaining brother, Giovanni, made another effort to secure Christian sepulture for them.- -Raynald. ann. 1353, No. 28. t Raynald. ann. 1348, No. 13-14; ann i350, No. 5.— Muratori Antiq. VII. 884, 928-32.
 * Martene Thesaur. II. 743-5.— Wadding, ann. 1324, No. 28; ann. 1326, No.