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| | Pope Clement VII : Giulio de Medici (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Born Giulio de' Medici, the most unfortunate of the popes was the son of Giuliano de' Medici, assassinated in the conspiracy of the Pazzi family against the Medici, and consequently nephew of Lorenzo de Medici and cousin of Pope Leo X. |
 | | Rome was assaulted and sacked on May 5, 1527, and Clement, who had displayed no more resolution in his military than in his political conduct, was shortly afterwards obliged to surrender himself together with the castle of Sant'Angelo, where he had taken refuge. |
 | | One momentous consequence of this dependence on Charles was the breach with England occasioned by Clement's refusal, justifiable in point of principle, but dictated by no higher motive than his fear of offending the emperor, to sanction VIII of England">Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. |
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