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St. Deusdedit, whose birth date is unknown, was the son of a Roman subdeacon, Stephen, who was elected to succeed Pope Boniface IV in October, 615. Little is known about him other than he had already served as a priest for fo... read more » |
615-618 |
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Pope Innocent III (1198 – 1216) Lotario de’ Conti was born about 1160 to an aristocratic Italian family. Over a period of 500 years, his family gave the Church thirteen popes, three anti popes, forty cardinals and... read more » |
1198-1216 |
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Pope Clement IV (1265 – 1268) Guy Foulques, a Frenchman from Provence, ascended the throne of the papacy in 1265 when he was seventy years old. A trusted confidant of (St.) Louis IX, king of France, Guy Foulques was a f... read more » |
1265-1268 |
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Pope John XXII (1316 – 1334) Jacques d'Euse, a Frenchman from Cahors, was born about 1244 to a family of wealthy bourgeois. His early career was as a cardinal priest. He ascended the papacy with the clear intention to r... read more » |
1316-1334 |
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Pope Gregory XI (1370 – 1378) Pierre Roger de Beaufort, an aristocratic Frenchman from the Limousin, was born in 1329 and was a nephew of Pope Clement VI (1342 – 1352). In such an atmosphere of privilege, one coul... read more » |
1370-1378 |
| Era: 1410-1415 | Prior to reading the biographical information about Antipope John XXIII, you may visit Ask the Expert on this website for additional information about antipopes. Baldassare Cossa was born around 1370 in the Kingdom of... read more » |
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Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini was born to an aristocratic, if impoverished, Italian family, the oldest of eighteen children. While studying canon law in Siena and Florence, he simultaneously steeped himself in humanist culture, ... read more » |
1458-1464 |
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Pietro Barbo, the son of wealthy Venetian merchants intended a career in business when his uncle became Pope Eugene IV (1431 to 1447). Pietro, born in 1418, was thirteen years old at the time and with the support of his mothe... read more » |
1464-1471 |
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Pope Sixtus IV (1471 – 1484) Francesco della Rovere, the son of wealthy merchants, was born in 1414 near Savona and educated in Bologna and Padua. He joined the Franciscan order in Savona and distinguished himself with ... read more » |
1471-1484 |
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Roderigo do Borja y Borja (Borgia) was born in 1431 near Valencia, Spain. As the nephew of the bishop of Valencia, who became Pope Callistus III in 1455, Roderigo enjoyed the benefits provided by him. He was educated in Bolog... read more » |
1492-1503 |
