biography
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John XXIII
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originally Baldassarre Cossa
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| lived:
| (c.1370–1419)
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| biography:
| Antipope, born in Naples, Campania, SW Italy. He was a clever strategist who, as the pope's Apostolic Delegate in Bologna (1410), managed to bring it back into papal sovereignty. He was elected pope by a council in Pisa (1410), at the same time as Pope Gregory XII and the Avignonese Pope Benedict XIII. He recovered some territories for Ladislao, King of Naples (1411), and convened, under pressure fom Emperor Sigmund, a council at Konstanz in order to heal the Western Schism, but was removed from office (1415). He was jailed for simony and heresy, but then recognized by Pope Martin V, who made him Bishop of Tuscolo (1419). |
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