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The measures of Urban were not without vigor, but at the same time were characterized by such a want of prudence and self-control as has given rise to the not improbable assertion that he actually was, at times at least, a lunatic. Clement VII was excommunicated, and designated the Antichrist; twenty-six new cardinals were created in a single day, and by an arbitrary alienation of the estates and property of the church, funds were raised for open war.

The castle of St Angelo was besieged and taken, and the antipope Clement VII forced to flee, while Charles of Durazzo was invested in the sovereignty of Naples, forfeited by Queen JoannaQueen Joan I born in 1327 as the Countess of Provence, ruled Naples and Jerusalem from 1343 to 1381. Joanna of Anjou, the daughter of Charles, Duke of Calabria and Joan, Duchess of Calabria, was married in 1334 at the tender age of seven to 6-year old Pri. Later, Charles began to resist the papal pretensions, and Urban was shut up in Nocera, from the walls of which he daily fulminated his anathemas against his besiegers; he afterwards succeeded in making his escape to Genoa, and on the death of Charles, set himself at the head of his troops, apparently with the intention of seizing Naples for his nephew if not for himself. To raise funds he proclaimed a JubileeThe concept of the Jubilee is a special year of remission of sins and universal pardon. In the Bible, a Jubilee year is mentioned to occur every fifty years, in which slaves and prisoners would be freed, debts would be forgiven and the mercies of God woul, though only thirty-three years had elapsed since that celebrated under Clement VIClement VI ne Pierre Roger ( 1291 December 6, 1352), pope ( 1342-1352), the fourth of the Avignon popes, was elected in May 1342. Like his immediate predecessors, he was devoted to France, and he further evinced his French sympathies by refusing a solemn, but before the celebration he died at Rome of injuries caused by a fall from his mule, on October 15, 1389. His successor was Boniface IXBoniface IX ne Piero Tomacelli ( 1356 October 1, 1404), pope ( November 2, 1389 October 1, 1404), During his time the antipope Clement VII continued to hold state as pope in Avignon under the protection of the French monarchy. Piero (Perino, Pietro) Tomac.

from the 9th edition (1888) of an unnamed encyclopedia.