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38-601: The Palatinate line of the House of Wittelsbach was divided into four lines after the death of Rupert III in 1410, including the line of Palatinate-Simmern with its capital in Simmern . This line became extinct in 1685 with the death of Charles II . The House of Palatinate-Neuburg line inherited the Electorate. The founder of the Simmern line, Stephen, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken

76-544: A definite end to the Avignon Papacy . Conciliarism gained impetus due to the Schism. This new reformist movement held that a general council is superior to the pope on the strength of its capability to resolve ecclesiastical issues. Theorists such as Jean Gerson explained that the priests and the church itself are the sources of the papal power and, thus, the church should be able to correct, punish, and, if necessary, depose

114-574: A holy cause, was taken up against the Flemings , because they were Urbanists, that is, infidels. Sustained by such national and factional rivalries, the schism continued after the deaths of both Urban VI in 1389 and Clement VII in 1394. Boniface IX was crowned in Rome in 1389, and Benedict XIII , who was elected against the wishes of Charles VI of France, reigned in Avignon from 1394. When Pope Boniface died in 1404,

152-548: A pope. On 18 January 1460, Pope Pius II issued the bull Execrabilis which forbids any attempt to appeal papal judgements by general councils. There was also a marked decline in discipline within the church. Scholars note that the Western Schism effectively eroded the church's authority and its capacity to proclaim the gospel. This dissension and loss of unity ultimately culminated in the Protestant Reformation of

190-613: A ship to Avignon and reestablished the papal court there. Charles V of France , who seems to have been irked beforehand by the choice of the Roman pontiff, soon became his greatest protector. Besides France, Clement eventually succeeded in winning to his cause Castile , Aragon , Navarre , a great part of the Latin East , and Scotland . Years later, Owain Glyndŵr 's rebellion in Wales also recognized

228-418: A year and awaited French military support, which never came. Innocent died 6 November 1406, and the Roman cardinals elected Angelo Correr as Gregory XII. The suggestion for a church council to resolve the Schism, first made in 1378, was not adopted initially, because canon law required that a pope call a council. Eventually theologians like Pierre d'Ailly and Jean Gerson, adopted arguments that permitted

266-474: Is also the founder of the cadet branch House of Palatinate-Zweibrücken and its cadet branches. The rights over the County of Veldenz and a share of the County of Sponheim , transmitted by Stephen's wife Anna of Veldenz , were held by these lineages. The house of Palatine-Simmern, in the person of the 1st elector, Frederick III , were staunch Calvinists . Frederick III was a devout convert to Calvinism, and made

304-488: Is now retroactively recognized by the Catholic Church as the sole legitimate line during the Western Schism. However, Popes Alexander VI through VIII have not been renumbered, leaving a gap in the numbering sequence. According to John F. Broderick (1987): Doubt still shrouds the validity of the three rival lines of pontiffs during the four decades subsequent to the still disputed papal election of 1378. This makes suspect

342-665: The Alps , but was defeated at Brescia and in April 1402 Rupert returned to Germany. The news of this failure increased the disorder in Germany, but the king met with some success in his efforts to restore peace. The Luxembourg resistance waned after Wenceslaus was arrested at Prague Castle by his brother Sigismund in March 1402 and the next year his lordship was finally recognized by the Pope. Rupert also gained

380-525: The Avignon Papacy had developed a reputation for corruption that estranged much of Western Christendom . This reputation was attributed to perceptions of strong French influence, the papal curia 's efforts to extend its powers of patronage, and attempts to increase its revenues. The last Avignon pope, Gregory XI , at the entreaty of relatives, friends, and his retinue, decided to return to Rome on 17 January 1377. Gregory, however, announced his intention to reverse his decision and return to Avignon just after

418-612: The Schism of 1378 , or the Great Schism ( Latin : Magnum schisma occidentale, Ecclesiae occidentalis schisma ), was a split within the Roman Catholic Church lasting from 20 September 1378 to 11 November 1417, in which bishops residing in Rome and Avignon simultaneously claimed to be the true pope , and were eventually joined by a third line of Pisan claimants in 1409. The event

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456-586: The Western Schism , Rupert backed Pope Boniface IX who, however, was reluctant to acknowledge his rule in view of the Luxembourg claims. After the king had won some recognition in Southern Germany , he started a campaign to Italy , where he hoped to crush the rule of Gian Galeazzo Visconti over the thriving Duchy of Milan and to be crowned Holy Roman Emperor by the Pope. In the autumn of 1401 he crossed

494-670: The Zähringen margrave Bernard I of Baden and several Swabian cities in 1405, Rupert was compelled to make certain concessions. The quarrel was complicated by the Papal Schism, but the king was just beginning to make some headway when he died at his castle of Landskrone near Oppenheim on 18 May 1410 and was buried at the Church of the Holy Spirit in Heidelberg . On his deathbed Rupert had decreed

532-431: The cardinals elected Bartolomeo Prignano, the archbishop of Bari , as Pope Urban VI . The majority of the cardinals who had elected Urban VI quickly regretted their decision and removed themselves to Anagni . Meeting at Fondi , thirteen cardinals elected Count Robert of Geneva as Pope Clement VII on 20 September 1378. The cardinals argued that the election of Urban VI was invalid because it had been out of fear of

570-483: The 16th century. For the next five centuries, the Catholic Church recognized the Roman popes as the legitimate line from 1378 to 1409, followed by the Pisan popes from 1409 to 1415. All Avignon popes after 1378 are considered to be antipopes. This recognition is reflected in the numbering of popes Alexander VI , VII , and VIII , who numbered themselves consecutively after their Pisan namesake Alexander V. The recognition of

608-457: The Avignon antipope Benedict XIII. In the intense partisanship that was characteristic of the Middle Ages, the schism engendered a fanatical hatred noted by Johan Huizinga : when the town of Bruges went over to the "obedience" of Avignon, a great number of people left to follow their trade in a city of Urbanist allegiance..[..].. In the 1382, the oriflamme , which might only be unfurled in

646-598: The Church to call a council to resolve this issue, while Francesco Zabarella argued that a council could only be convoked by an emperor. Pope Benedict and Gregory agreed to abdicate their respective papacies in December 1406. However, Benedict stated that he wanted to negotiate a solution first. Gregory sent an ambassador to the St. Victor abbey in Marseille, where Benedict was staying. On

684-584: The Easter celebrations of 1378. Before he could return to Avignon, Gregory XI died in the Vatican palace on 27 March 1378. The Romans put into operation a plan to use intimidation and violence ( impressio et metus ) to ensure the election of a Roman pope. The pope and his curia had returned to Rome after seventy years in Avignon, and the Romans were prepared to do everything in their power to keep them there. On 8 April 1378,

722-627: The Pisan popes made the continued legitimacy of the Roman pope Gregory XII doubtful for 1409–1415. The Annuario Pontificio for 1860 listed the Pisan popes as true popes from 1409 to 1415, but it acknowledged that Gregory XII's reign ended in either 1409 or 1415. The Western Schism was, in practice, reinterpreted in 1958 when Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli chose to reuse the ordinal XXIII upon his election as Pope John XXIII, citing "twenty-two [sic] Johns of indisputable legitimacy." (There had actually been twenty undisputed Johns due to antipopes and numbering errors .) Although Roncalli's declaration of assuming

760-782: The Reformed confession the official religion of his domain by overseeing the composition and promulgation of the Heidelberg Catechism . His support of Calvinism gave the German Reformed movement a foothold and base within the Holy Roman Empire . It was also part of the appeal of Frederick V to the Bohemians in electing him King. As of 2022, those in the line of succession to the British throne are Protestant descendants of Sophia , who

798-422: The Roman pope Gregory XII , giving it greater legitimacy. On 6 April 1415, the council issued Haec sancta , stating that the council is the Church's highest governing body and has the authority to remove popes. The council, advised by the theologian Jean Gerson , secured the resignation of Gregory XII and the detention and removal of John XXIII. The Avignon antipope Benedict XIII , who refused to step down,

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836-632: The college including the Elector Palatine's own vote. As the Imperial City of Aachen refused to let him enter through its gates, Rupert was crowned by Archbishop Frederick III in Cologne on 6 January 1401. Lacking a solid power base in the Empire, his rule remained contested by Wenceslaus' family, the mighty House of Luxembourg , though Wenceslaus himself did not take any action to regain his royal title. In

874-521: The credentials of the cardinals created by the Roman, Avignon, and Pisan claimants to the Apostolic See. Unity was finally restored without a definitive solution to the question; for the Council of Constance succeeded in terminating the Western Schism, not by declaring which of the three claimants was the rightful one, but by eliminating all of them by forcing their abdication or deposition, and then setting up

912-621: The division of his heritage among his four surviving sons. He was succeeded as elector by the eldest surviving son, Louis III. The second surviving son, John , received the County Palatine of Neumarkt , the third surviving son, Stephen, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken , and the youngest son, Otto , the County Palatine of Mosbach . In the following imperial election on September 20, Louis III voted for Sigismund of Luxembourg, who however lost to his cousin Margrave Jobst of Moravia . He

950-531: The eight cardinals of the Roman conclave offered to refrain from electing a new pope if Benedict would resign; but when Benedict's legates refused on his behalf, the Roman party then proceeded to elect Pope Innocent VII . Discussions continued instead with Innocent, but quickly stalled and by February 1405, and Benedict's envoys had returned to Avignon. Benedict quickly excommunicated Innocent and with an army started marching towards Rome, in May 1405. He occupied Genoa for

988-526: The government of the Electoral Palatinate to which he succeeded on his father's death in 1398. He and the three ecclesiastical prince-electors (of Mainz , Cologne and Trier ) met at Lahneck Castle in Oberlahnstein on 20 August 1400 and declared their king, Wenceslaus , deposed. On the next day the same four electors met at Rhens to ballot for Rupert as next German king, thus the majority of

1026-620: The name specified that his decision was made "apart from disputes about legitimacy", this passage was subsequently excised from the version appearing in the Acta Apostolicae Sedis , and the Pisan popes Alexander V and John XXIII have since been classified as antipopes by the Roman Curia. The reinterpretation is reflected in modern editions of the Annuario Pontificio , which extend Gregory XII's reign to 1415. The line of Roman popes

1064-464: The other hand, Gregory preferred Savona, and Benedict concurred. They balked at the last moment, and both groups of cardinals abandoned their preferred leaders. The Council of Pisa met in 1409 under the auspices of the cardinals to try solving the dispute. At the fifteenth session, on 5 June 1409, the Council of Pisa attempted to depose both the Roman pope and Avignon antipope as schismatical, heretical, perjured and scandalous, but proceeded to inflame

1102-465: The problem even further by electing Peter Philargi, the cardinal archbishop of Milan, as Alexander V . He reigned briefly in Pisa from June 26, 1409, to his death in 1410, when he was succeeded by, Baldassare Cossa as John XXIII , who achieved limited support. In 1414, Council of Constance was convened by the Pisan pope John XXIII to resolve the schism once and for all. The council was also endorsed by

1140-545: The rioting Roman crowds. Unable to maintain himself in Anagni, and following the defeat of his forces at the battle of Marino, Clement VII fled to Naples, which was ruled by one of his supporters, Queen Joanna I of Naples . Despite being met regally by Joanna, Clement was met with the populace chanting, "Viva Papa Urbano" (Long Live Pope Urban) and "Muoia l'Anticristo" (Death to the Antichrist), which convinced him to leave. He took

1178-520: The support of England by the marriage of his son Louis with Blanche of Lancaster , daughter of King Henry IV on 6 July 1402. In his Palatinate hereditary lands, Rupert turned out to be a capable ruler. It was nevertheless only the indolence of Wenceslaus that prevented his overthrow. After attempts to enlarge the king's allodium caused conflicts with his former ally, the Archbishop of Mainz forging an alliance with Count Eberhard III of Württemberg ,

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1216-483: The true pope. After several attempts at reconciliation, the Council of Pisa (1409) declared that both rivals were illegitimate and elected a third purported pope. The schism was finally resolved when the Pisan claimant Antipope John XXIII called the Council of Constance (1414–1418). The Council arranged for the renunciation of both Roman pope Gregory XII and Pisan antipope John XXIII. The Avignon antipope Benedict XIII

1254-447: Was excommunicated on 27 July 1417, having lost all his supporters in the process. The Council elected Pope Martin V in 1417, essentially ending the schism. Benedict XIII, recognized by King Martin of Aragon in 1397, chose to ignore pleas for his resignation. Benedict died 23 May 1423: to succeed him three cardinals elected Gil Sanchez Munoz y Carbon as Clement VIII . Clement VIII resigned in 1429 and recognized Martin V, putting

1292-574: Was born at Amberg in the Upper Palatinate , the son of Elector Palatine Rupert II and Beatrice of Aragon , daughter of King Peter II of Sicily . Rupert's great-granduncle was the Wittelsbach emperor Louis IV . He was raised at the Dominican Liebenau monastery near Worms , where his widowed grandmother Irmengard of Oettingen lived as a nun. From his early years Rupert took part in

1330-626: Was born into the house (daughter of Frederick V and Elizabeth Stuart ) as Princess palatine of the Rhine, later becoming Electress consort of Hanover Rupert of Germany Rupert of the Palatinate ( German : Ruprecht von der Pfalz ; 5 May 1352 – 18 May 1410), sometimes known as Robert of the Palatinate , a member of the House of Wittelsbach , was Elector Palatine from 1398 (as Rupert III) and King of Germany from 1400 until his death. Rupert

1368-639: Was driven by international rivalries, personalities and political allegiances, with the Avignon Papacy in particular being closely tied to the French monarchy . The papacy had resided in Avignon since 1309, but Pope Gregory XI returned to Rome in 1377. The Catholic Church split in September 1378, when, following Gregory XI's death and Urban VI's subsequent election, a group of French cardinals declared his election invalid and elected Clement VII , who claimed to be

1406-624: Was excommunicated, while Pope Martin V was elected and reigned from Rome. The event is sometimes referred to as the Great Schism , although this term is usually reserved for the East–West Schism of 1054 between the churches remaining in communion with the See of Rome and those remaining with the Eastern Orthodox Church . The papacy had, since 1309, resided in Avignon, a papal enclave surrounded by France . Initiated by Pope Clement V ,

1444-750: Was married in Amberg on 27 June 1374 to Elisabeth , daughter of Burgrave Frederick V of Nuremberg and Elisabeth of Meissen . They had the following children: Rupert's strenuous efforts earned him the surname Clemens ("the Gentle"). He also commissioned the Ruprecht building in Heidelberg Castle . Western Schism The Western Schism , also known as the Papal Schism , the Great Occidental Schism ,

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