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| | Papal Schism, 100Years War, Black Plague (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | In 1309, shortly after his election, Clement moved the papacy from Rome to Avignon, a town in southern France, where the papacy was to reside until 1376. |
 | | Although the move was undertaken in part to insure the Pope freedom of action, it appeared to many in Europe that the presence of the papacy in France compromised the Pope's independence and made the papacy the vassal of the French crown. |
 | | They fled back to France and declared their election of Urban to be void, since they had been coerced by the Roman mobs, and elected a new Pope, Clement VII. |
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