Views During the Third Period (750-1517 A.D.) (32): The Supremacy of the Pope: The Decline of the Papacy and the Avignon Exile A.D. 1294-1377

The Transfer of the Papacy to Avignon. The Transfer of the Papacy to Avignon. The successor of Boniface, Benedict XI, 1303-1304, Dominican, was a mild-spirited and worthy man, more bent on healing ruptures than on forcing his arbitrary will. Departing from the policy of his predecessor, he capitulated to the state and put an end to the conflict with Philip the Fair. Sentences launched by Boniface were recalled or modified, and the interdict pronounced by that pope upon Lyons was revoked....