Boniface VIII declaring the Jubilee Year, fresco by Giotto in the Basilica of St. John Lateran
Church
Catholic Church
Papacy began
24 December 1294
Papacy ended
11 October 1303
Predecessor
Celestine V
Successor
Benedict XI
Orders
Consecration
23 January 1295 by Hugh Aycelin
Created cardinal
12 April 1281 by Martin IV
Personal details
Born
Benedetto Caetani
c. 1230
Anagni, Papal States
Died
11 October 1303(1303-10-11) (aged 72–73) Rome, Papal States
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Pope Boniface VIII ({{lang-la|Bonifatius PP. VIII}), born Benedetto Caetani (c. 1230– 11 October 1303) was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 24 December 1294 until his death in 1303. The Caetani family was of baronial origin, with connections to the papacy. He succeeded Pope Celestine V, who had abdicated from the papal throne. Boniface spent his early career abroad in diplomatic roles.
Boniface VIII put forward some of the strongest claims of any pope to temporal as well as spiritual power. He involved himself often with foreign affairs, including in France, Sicily, Italy and the First War of Scottish Independence. These views, and his chronic intervention in "temporal" affairs, led to many bitter quarrels with Albert I of Germany, Philip IV of France, and Dante Alighieri, who expected the pope to soon arrive at the Eighth Circle of Hell in his Divine Comedy, among the simoniacs.
Boniface systematized canon law by collecting it in a new volume, the Liber Sextus (1298), which continues to be important source material for canon lawyers. He established the first Catholic "jubilee" year to take place in Rome. Boniface had first entered into conflict with Philip IV of France in 1296 when the latter sought to reinforce the nascent nation state by imposing taxes on the clergy and barring them from administration of the law. Boniface excommunicated Philip and all others who prevented French clergy from traveling to the Holy See, after which the king sent his troops to attack the pope's residence in Anagni on 7 September 1303 and capture him. Boniface was held for three days, was beaten badly, and died a month afterwards.
King Philip IV pressured Pope Clement V of the Avignon Papacy into staging a posthumous trial of Boniface. He was accused of heresy and sodomy, but no verdict against him was delivered.
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