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BENEDICT XI

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 718 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BEC-BER
BENEDICT XI . (Niccolo Boccasini),
pope
  from 1303 to 1304, the son of a notary, was born in 1240 at Treviso. Entering the Dominican order in 1254, he became lector, prior of the convent, provincial of his order in Lombardy, and in 1296 its general. In 1298 he was created cardinal priest of Santa Sabina, and in 1300 cardinal
bishop
  of Ostia and
Velletri
 . In 1302 he was papal legate in
Hungary
 . On the 22nd of October 1303 he was unanimously elected
pope
 . He did much to conciliate the enemies made by his predecessor
Boniface
  VIII., notably France, the Colonnas and King Frederick II. of Sicily; nevertheless on the 7th of June 1304 he excommunicated William of Nogaret and all the Italians who had captured .
Boniface
  in Anagni. Benedict died at Perugia on the 7th of July 1304; if he was really poisoned, as report had it, suspicion would fall primarily on Nogaret. His successor Clement V. transferred the papal residence to Avignon. Among Benedict's works are commentaries on
part
  of the Psalms and on the Gospel of
Matthew
 . His beatification took place in 1733.
See C. Grandjean, " Registres de
Benoit
  XI." (Paris, 1883 ff.), Bibliotheque des Ecoles francaises d'Athenes et de Rome.


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