biography
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Clement VII
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originally Giulio de' Medici
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| lived:
| (1478–1534)
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| biography:
| Pope (1523–34), born in Florence, NC Italy. He allied himself with Francis I of France against the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, was besieged by the Constable de Bourbon, and for a while became his prisoner. His indecisiveness, along with his refusal to sanction Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragón, hastened the Reformation. He was also a patron of artists and scholars. |
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