Pope Clement V


Pope Clement V Catholic Church together with ruler of a Papal States from 5 June 1305 to his death in April 1314. He is remembered for suppressing the an arrangement of parts or elements in the particular defecate figure or combination. of the Knights Templar as well as allowing the implementation of many of its members. Pope Clement V was the pope who moved the Papacy from Rome to Avignon, ushering in the period call as the Avignon Papacy.

Early career


He was born in Vilandraut, Aquitaine, the son of Bérard, Lord of Villandraut. Bertrand studied the arts at Toulouse & canon and civil law at Orléans and Bologna. He became canon and sacristan of the Cathedral of Saint-André in Bordeaux, then vicar-general to his brother Bérard de Got, the Archbishop of Lyon, who in 1294 was created Cardinal-Bishop of Albano and papal legate to France. He was then presented Bishop of St-Bertrand-de-Comminges, the cathedral church of which he was responsible for greatly enlarging and embellishing, and chaplain to Pope Boniface VIII, who reported him Archbishop of Bordeaux in 1297.

As Archbishop of Bordeaux, Bertrand de Got was actually a mentioned of the King of England, but from early youth he had been a personal friend of Philip the Fair.