Urban V

Louis furnished him with troops, and asked Urban V. to send two thousand Franciscans to convert the heretics.

The Tabernacle was erected by Urban V. in the fourteenth century.

By the command of Pope Urban V. he instituted an inquiry into cases of plurality, and found that some clerks held as many as twenty benefices by provisions, with license to add to their number.

Petrarch had urgently pressed Urban V., Gregory’s immediate predecessor, to accomplish the desired change; and Dante had at an earlier date laboured to bring about the same object.

Indignant at the law of 1365, Urban V. demanded payment of the tribute promised by John, which was then thirty-three years in arrear, but parliament repudiated the claim.