Of Kings and Taxes: Behind the Arrest of Pope Boniface in 1303
Western Christendom saw two, then three, then four rival popes before eventually the schism ended. The ambitions of the papacy had been thwarted and the supremacy of national kings was established
By Frontier Centre for Public Policy , Gerry Bowler—— Bio and Archives--September 22, 2024
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On Sept. 7, 1303, a French military force which had crossed into Italy seized the pope at his summer palace at Anagni, south of Rome. The soldiers dragged him from his throne, beat him, and threw him in a jail cell, intending to take him back to France for trial. What had prompted such an extraordinary turn of events?
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