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BENEDICT XII

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

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BEC-BER
BENEDICT XII . (Jacques Fournier),
pope
  from 1334 to 1342,1 the son of a miller, was born at Saverdun on the Arriege. Entering the Cistercian cloister Bolbonne, and graduating
doctor
  of theology at Paris, he became in 1311 abbot of Fontfroide, in 1317
bishop
  of Pamiers and in 1326 of Mirepoix. Created cardinal priest of Santa Prisca in 1327 by his uncle John XXII. he was elected his successor on the loth of December 1334. Benedict made appointments carefully, reformed monastic orders and consistently opposed nepotism. Unable to remove his
capital
  to Rome or to Bologna, he began to erect a
great
  palace at
Avignon
 . In 1336 he decided against a pet notion of John XXII. by saying that souls of saints may attain the fulness of the beatific vision before the last judgment. In 1339 he entered upon fruitless negotiations looking toward the reunion of the Greek and Roman churches. French
influence
  made futile his attempt to come to an understanding with the emperor Louis the Bavarian. He died on the 25th of
April
  1342.
See the source publications of G. Daumet (Lettres closes, patentes et curiales, . . . Paris, 1899ff.), and J .-M .Vidal (Lettres communes, .. . Paris, 1903 ff.). (W. W. R.*)


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