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He was raised to the papal chair in 1455 at a very advanced age as a compromise candidate. He was feeble and incompetent. The great object of his policy was the urging of a crusade against the Turks, who had captured Constantinople in 1453Events May 29 Fall of Constantinople to Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II the Conqueror, marking the end of the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire). July 17 Battle of Castillon. The French under Jean Bureau utterly defeat the English under the Earl of Shrewsbu, but he did not find the Christian princes responsive to his call despite his every effort.
He made two of his nephews cardinals, one of whom, Rodrigo Borgia, later became the notably corrupt Pope Alexander VIAlexander VI ne Rodrigo Borgia ( January 1, 1431 August 18, 1503) pope ( 1492- 1503), is the most memorable of the secular popes of the Renaissance. He was born at Xativa, Valencia, Spain, and his father's surname was Lanzol or Llancol; that of his mother.
He ordered a new trial for Joan of ArcJoan of Arc ( January 6, 1412 May 30, 1431) (also Jeanne d'Arc Jehanne la Pucelle in French, and Maid of Orleans is a national heroine of France and saint of the Catholic Church. During the Hundred Years' War she led the French against the English and was, at which she was posthumously vindicated. He died in 1458.
| Preceded by Nicholas VNicholas V ne Tomaso Parentucelli ( November 15, 1397 March 24, 1455) was pope from March 6, 1447, to March 24, 1455. He was born at Sarzana, Liguria, where his father was a physician. His father died while he was young, but in Florence, Parentucelli beca | Pope ( list) | Succeeded by Pius IIPius II ne Enea Silvio Piccolomini ( October 18, 1405 August 14, 1464) was pope from 1458 to 1464. Pius, "whose character reflects almost every tendency of the age in which he lived", was born at Corsignano in the Sienese territory of a noble but decayed |