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A camauro (from the Latin camelaucum, from the Greek kamelauchion, meaning "camel skin hat") is a cap traditionally worn by the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. Papal camauros are red with white ermine trim and are worn in place of the biretta. Like the biretta worn by lesser clergy and the mortarboard worn by academics, the camauro derived from the academic cap (the pileus), which was originally worn to protect the tonsured head of the clergy. The camauro is thought to ...

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The Western Schism or Papal Schism (Also known as the Great Schism of Western Christianity) was a split within the Catholic Church in 1378. Lacking any real theological or doctrinal underpinnings, being rather driven by politics, it was resolved after 40 years by the Council of Constance. It is occasionally called the Great Schism, though this term is more often applied to the East-West Schism of 1054. The schism in the Western church resulted from the untimely return of the Papacy from Avignon to Rome b ...

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This article incorporates text from the public domain Catholic Encyclopedia. Council of Pisa - Preliminaries. The Great Schism of the West had lasted thirty years (since 1378), and none of the means employed to bring it to an end had been successful. Compromise or arbitral agreement between the two parties had never been seriously attempted; surrender had failed lamentably owing to the obstinacy of the rival popes, all equally convinced of their rights; action, that is the interference of pri ...

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Benedict XIII, born Pedro Martínez de Luna, (b. Illueca, Aragon, 1328; d. Peñíscola, near Valencia, 1423) was an Aragonese, and is considered by many Roman Catholics an Antipope. Pedro de Luna was born at Illueca in Aragon (part of modern Spain) in 1328. He belonged to the de Luna family, who were part of the Spanish noblility. He studied law at the University of Montpellier, where he obtained his doctorate and later taught canon law. His knowledge of canon law, noble lineage and austere way of life won him the approval of Pope Gregory XI, who appointed de Luna to the position o ...

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1336 - Events. End of the Kemmu restoration and beginning of the Muromachi period in Japan. Start of the reign of Emperor Kōmyō, second of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders Foundation of Vijayanagara on the southern part of the Deccan plateau in India by the brothers Harihara and Bukka Raya. Aberdeen is burned by the English. 1336 - Deaths. April 14 - Emperor Go-Kogon of Japan (died 1374) July 25 - Albert, Count of Holland ...

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1406 - Events. Construction of Forbidden City begins in Beijing. Richard Whittington becomes Lord Mayor of London. December 25 - John II becomes King of Castile. Eric of Pomerania marries Philippa, daughter of Henry IV of England. James I becomes King of Scotland, after having been captured by Henry IV of England. Richard, Earl of Cambridge, marries Anne Mortimer. Gregory XII succeeds Innocent VII as Pope. Pisa is subjugated by Florence. Including:

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On the Feast of the Annunciation, 4 patriarchs, 22 cardinals, and 80 bishops asembled in the cathedral of Pisa under the presidency of Cardinal de Malesset, Bishop of Palestrina. Among the clergy were the representatives of 100 absent bishops, 87 abbots with the proxies of those who could not come to Pisa, 41 priors and generals of religious orders, 300 doctors of theology or canon law. The ambassadors of all the Christian kingdoms completed this august assembly. Judicial procedure began at once. Two cardinal deacons, two bishops, and two no ...

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The Great Schism of the West had lasted thirty years (since 1378), and none of the means employed to bring it to an end had been successful. Compromise or arbitral agreement between the two parties had never been seriously attempted; surrender had failed lamentably owing to the obstinacy of the rival popes, all equally convinced of their rights; action, that is the interference of princes and armies, had been without result. During these deplorable divisions Pope Boniface IX, Pope Innocent VII, and Pope Gregory XII had in turn replaced Pope ...

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Council of Pisa, Council of Pisa - Preliminaries, Council of Pisa - Meeting of the Council, Council of Pisa - Judgment of the Council of Pisa

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