20 Most Evil People of the 14th Century CE

Key Facts

Other names	Bartolomeo Prignano
Born	1378
Location	Naples, Italy
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Married
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Position	Pope (1378-1389)
Died	October 15, 1389

Source of Facts and Important Announcement

Status	Under Article 64.6 of the Covenant of One-Heaven (Pactum De Singularis Caelum) by Special Qualification shall be known as a Saint, with all sins and evil acts they performed forgiven.
Date of formal Beatification	Day of Redemption UCA[E1:Y1:A1:S1:M9:D1] also known as Fri, 21 Dec 2012.
Source of Facts	Self Confession and Revelation of Sainthood by the Deceased Spirit as condition of their confirmation as a true Saint.

Background

Born in Naples, he was a skilled Papal lawyer, trained at Avignon.

On March 21, 1364, he was consecrated Archbishop of Acerenza in the Kingdom of Naples. He became Archbishop of Bari in 1377.

In January 1377, Pope Gregory XI arrived in Rome from Avignon to attempt to re-establish again the authority of the French Popes upon Rome and the Italian noble and Papal families.

By March 28th of that same year, he was dead at the age of 42, presumably poisoned.

After his death, some of the Italian papal families arranged for their militia dressed as commoners to stage a riot to disrupt the Conclave, demanding an Italian Pope, shouting the name of their candidate being Bartolomeo Prignano. Most of the French cardinals, representing the majority were forced to flee for their lives.

On April 8, 1378 the remaining Italian Cardinals elected Italian Bartolomeo Prignano as Pope Urban VI.

Immediately upon his election, Urban VI hired a troop of fierce mercenary soldiers, who were then commonplace, and drove his rivals into the country. Before setting out to recover the papal possessions in the south, he sold the sacred vessels of the Roman churches which he had promised to his sons and daughters.

Charles V of France (1364-1380) not wishing to initially force a schism with Italy and those crowns faithful to Rome, demanded that Pope Urban VI return himself to Avignon as the rightful court of the Papal States. However Urban VI refused, instead using his paid miltia to seize various Cardinals, Bishops and lower nobles not in favour of his reign and having them slowly tortured to death.

Outraged, the French Cardinals, who held the clear majority in those years, elected their own Pope at Fondi. Secretly supported by the king of France, they proceeded to elect Robert of Geneva (September 20). He took the title of Clement VII (1378–94). Urban was excommunicated by the French pope and designated the Antichrist.

Urban VI was hardly moved by the French. He reaped a rich harvest by confiscating property from the wealthy nobles with the grasp of his enlarged Papal Militia and creating saleable offices for an additional 37 bishops.

It is said Pope Urban VI loved to recite his breviary in a loud voice to drown out the moans of his many victims openly tortured in front of him, while his children jeered.

Charles III, the king of Naples, was disgusted and sent an army to attack him, but Urban escaped over the rear wall of the Papal Palace. When he returned, the cardinals, who had discussed among themselves a plan to depose him, begged him to check his indecent displays of temper. However, Urban imprisoned six of them in the papal dungeons and had them tortured. Only one of the cardinals, Englishman Adam Easton, was ever heard of again, and few doubt that the pope had the others killed.

Flitting from town to town, his son's vices causing him to be repeatedly expelled, Urban VI attempted to raise money for a crusade against Naples but in 1389 died of poisoning

He died on October 15, 1389 and was succeeded by Pope Boniface IX (1389-1404)

Most Evil Crimes

List of most evil crimes

Type	Year	Crime
		Of murder (1378 - 1389 CE) That Pope Urban VI did order the torture and murder of Cardinals that did not agree to his policies or open satanic behaviour. That he was recorded as complaining to the torturers that he did not hear enough screaming when Cardinals who had conspired against him were tortured.
		Of heresy, moral indecency and depravity (1365-1367) That Pope Urban VI did promise English soldiers and nobles indulgences to Heaven for anyone who would take up arms and defeat Pope Clement VII.


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