This Year: 1309--Pope Clement V and the Avignon Papacy

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1309

In 1309,

Pope Clement V

 moved the Papacy to Avignon, France.

This has been This Year: 1309.

Credits:

Notre Dame Cathedral interior 

https://mywowo.net/en/france/paris/notre-dame/interior

Folio 18 from Bibliotheque Nationale, MS It. 81,
Allegorical map of the City of Rome, showing a personification of Rome as a widow during the Avignon Papacy.
Scanned from Four Gothic Kings, ed. Elizabeth Hallam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BNMsItal81Fol18RomeWidowed.jpg

Rosier, Jean-Marc, Avignon, Palais des Papes, France
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Avignon,_Palais_des_Papes_by_JM_Rosier.jpg

Schola Antiqua, Gradual Chant "Universi qui te expectant," https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gradual_chant_-_Universi_qui_te_expectant.ogg.

Serrur, Henri Auguste Calixte Cèsar, Portrait of Pope Clement V (19th Century)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Papa_Clemens_Quintus.jpg