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Boniface IX
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Boniface IX, c.1345–1404, pope (1389–1404), a Neapolitan named Pietro Tomacelli; successor of Urban VI. The Avignon antipopes Clement VII and Benedict XIII were his contemporaries during the Great Schism Schism, Great, or Schism of the West, division in the Roman Catholic Church from 1378 to 1417. There was no question of faith or practice involved; the schism was a matter of persons and politics.
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. He succeeded in imposing his rule on the Papal States. He fortified Rome and brought Naples under the Roman obedience. His attempt to replenish the papal treasury proved unpopular, and he was accused of nepotism and simony. He was succeeded by Innocent VII.


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Precisely because the bianchi were orderly, carried no worrying ideological baggage, and lacked a charismatic leader like the earlier Venturino of Bergarno (1335), churchmen like Bishop Jacopo Fieschi of Genoa and, after some hesitation, Pope Boniface IX, embraced the movement and managed to reinforce the sacramental and miraculous elements of bianchi devotion.
 
 
 
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