Avignon Papacy in the 1350s

Name: Avignon Papacy in the 1350s
Start: 1351
End: 1360

Type Event Region Europe Time 1351–1360

In the 1350s, popes Clement VI and Innocent VI presided from Avignon, sustaining the lavish court through simony, taxation, and Florentine banking wh…

Timeline

1351–1352Avignon · ProvencePope Clement VI maintained a lavish court at Avignon, expanded the papal palace, raised vast sums through the sale of offices and church taxes, and patronized humanist scholars, making Avignon the religious and cultural center of mid-14th-century Europe.
1352–1360Avignon · ProvenceAfter accession, Innocent VI reformed papal finances and the sale of offices, appointed Cardinal Albornoz to carry out church reform, and organized relief after the Black Death and preparations for a crusade, bringing the papacy into closer ties with French royal power.

Sources

The Avignon Papacy Contested: An Intellectual History from Dante to Catherine of Siena — Unn Falkeid (2017)