Pope Clement V was born with the given name of Bertrand de Got in the year 1264 A.D., and died in 1314 A.D. He began his reign as Pope in the year 1305 A.D. and ended his reign in the year 1314 A.D., during the Late Middle Ages. Clement V was from France, and his papal number is: 195 out of 267 officially recognized Roman Catholic Popes.
Summary: Pope who moved the papal court to Avignon, inaugurating a new era.
Biography:Clement V’s election opened one of the major transformations of later medieval papal history. Under his pontificate the papal court settled at Avignon, beginning the period often called the Avignon Papacy.
He also presided over the suppression of the Knights Templar and navigated a close, often criticized relationship with the French crown. The move away from Rome had lasting consequences for the papacy’s independence and image.
Clement V’s legacy is inseparable from the relocation of papal government and the complex entanglements of papal and French power.
