Clement V (pope)
1264 – 1314 French Pope (1305-1314)
Pope who moved the papacy to Avignon and suppressed the Knights Templar.
- Religion
- Catholic; Bishop of Rome
- Affiliations
- The papacy
Clement V, a Frenchman, never went to Rome and settled the papal court at Avignon in France, starting the seventy-year period later called the Babylonian Captivity of the papacy. Under heavy pressure from King Philip IV, he suppressed the Knights Templar in 1312 and let their leaders be burned. He was widely seen as a tool of the French crown.
In the timeline
- 1307 Pope Clement V orders Templar arrests across Christendom central figure
- 1309 – 1377 Avignon papacy begins mentioned
- 1312 Suppression of the Knights Templar mentioned
- 1312 Council of Vienne dissolves the Knights Templar mentioned