25 Most Evil People of the 15th Century CE

Key Facts

Other names	Pedro Martínez de Luna
Born	1328
Location	Illueca, Aragon (part of modern Spain)
Bloodline	de Luna family, who were part of the Aragonese nobility
Married	No. Several Mistresses.
Children	Yes. All illegitimate
Position	Pope (1394-1423)
Died	May 1423

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

Pedro Martínez de Luna was born at Illueca, Aragon (part of modern Spain) in 1328. Appointed Cardinal Deacon by Pope Gregory XI in 1375.

Returned to Rome with Pope Gregory XI in 1377 along with the rest of the Papal Avignon Court. On the death of Gregory XI in 1378, the Roman noble families started riots throughout Rome in an attempt to stop the election of a French Pope, instead electing Bartholomew Prignani as Pope Urban VI.

However, de Luna and the non-Italian Cardinals, which constituted a greater majority, reconvened at Fondi an elected Robert of Geneva as their new Pope (Pope Clement VII), who then returned to Avignon.

In 1389 at the death of Clement VII instead of the Italian noble families agreeing to return unity sole Papal authority to Clement VII, instead chose their own Pope again as Boniface IX. When Clement VII died in 1394, de Luna was legally elected Benedict XIII.

The term anti-Pope being a modern revisionist term, Benedict was considered at the start of his Papacy the legitimate Pope by the kingdoms of France, Scotland, Sicily, Castile, Aragon, Navarre, and Portugal.

While France originally supported Benedict as the legitimate and legal Pope, they withdrew their support of him in 1398 upon the complete corruption and debauchery of Avignon. Geoffrey Boucicaut was sent with an army to capture the Pope, but after a five year seige, the Pope managed to espace to the protection of Louis II of Anjou.

Benedict XIII refused to take a single step toward unity with the Italian nobility. He took refuge in Avignon, and all France demanded his abdication. It was Pope Benedict XIII who took the extraordinary step of seeking out and destroying all copies of two second-century books that contained "the true name of Jesus Christ"

He created four new cardinals specifically to single out for condemnation the secret Latin treatise called Mar Yesu, and then issued instructions for all copies of the mysterious Book of Elxai to be destroyed.

On 21 May 1408, King Charles VI of France (1368-1422) published a decree withdrawing the French Catholic Church and all French citizens from obedience to Pope Benedict XIII. He nullified his country's support for Christianity and declared France religiously neutral--a decision that was upheld until a Frenchman was elected pope years later.

He died in May 1423 as the last of the Avignon Popes.

Most Evil Crimes

List of most evil crimes

Type	Year	Crime
		Of obtaining property by extortion: (1400) That Pope Benedict XIII did decree in a Papal Bull that it is a mortal sin not to leave at least 10 per cent of one's estate to church in will.


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