while telling him, “We are come to lead you captive to Lyons, to deprive you of the dignity of Pope.” By some accounts Colonna or De Nogaret slapped Boniface in the face. Historian Dan Jones, in his 2017 book,The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God’s ...
With the death of his personal enemies, opposition to Boniface diminished, and his legitimacy was no longer denied even in France (Balan, "Il processo di Bonifazio VIII", Rome, 1881).CLEMENT V AND THE TEMPLARSSince the final expulsion (1291) of the crusading forces from the Holy Land, the...
Council of Vienne, 15th ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic church (1311–12), convoked by Pope Clement V at the insistence of Philip IV of France, who demanded the posthumous trial of Pope Boniface VIII and the suppression of the Knights Templars,
Not allowing the church a role in secular affairs, Philip forced Clement to annul Pope Boniface VIII’s bulls Clericis Laicos, forbidding clergy to pay subsidies to lay authorities, and Unam Sanctam, defining the pope’s supreme authority. From 1307 Philip wanted to destroy the Knights Templars...