Papal conclave, 1370

Papal conclave 1370 (December 29 – December 30, 1370) held after the death of Pope Urban V, elected as his successor cardinal Pierre Roger de Beaufort, who under the name Gregory XI became seventh ant the last Pope of the period of Avignon Papacy.
==List of participants==
Pope Urban V died on December 20, 1370 at Avignon. He was the first Pope who resided in Rome since 1304, although only for a short time (1367 until the beginning of 1370, when he returned to Avignon). At the time of his death, there were 20 living Cardinals. 18 of them participated in the conclave:Salvador Miranda List of participants of papal conclave of 1370.
Elector 	Cardinalatial Title 	Elevated 	Elevator 	NotesNotes according to biographical entries of the respective cardinals on The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church: consistories of XIV Century by Salvador Miranda
Guy de Boulogne 	Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina; commendatario of S. Cecilia and S. Crisogono	September 20, 1342	Pope Clement VI 	Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals
Raymond de Canillac, C.R.S.A. 	Bishop of Palestrina 	December 17, 1350 	Pope Clement VI (Cardinal-nephew) 	
Guillaume de la Sudrie, O.P. 	Bishop of Ostia e Velletri 	September 18, 1366	Pope Urban V 	
Gilles Aycelin de Montaigu 	Bishop of Frascati 	September 17, 1361	Pope Innocent VI 	
Philippe de Cabassole 	Bishop of Sabina 	September 22, 1368	Pope Urban V 	
Pierre de Monteruc 	Priest of S. Anastasia 	December 23, 1356 	Pope Innocent VI (Cardinal-nephew)	Archpriest of the Sacred College of Cardinals; Vice-Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church
Guillaume de la Jugié 	Priest of S. Clemente 	1342, September 20	Pope Clement VI (Cardinal-nephew) 	Cardinal-protector of the Order of Franciscans
Jean de Blauzac 	Priest of S. Marco 	September 17, 1361	Pope Innocent VI 	
Guillaume d'Aigrefeuille, O.S.B.	Priest of S. Stefano al Monte Celio 	May 12, 1367 	Pope Urban V 	Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals
Stephen Langham 	Priest of S. Sisto 	September 22, 1368	Pope Urban V 	
Bernard du Bosquet 	Priest of SS. XII Apostoli 	September 22, 1368	Pope Urban V 	
Jean de Dormans 	Priest of SS. IV Coronati 	September 22, 1368	Pope Urban V 	Chancellor of the Kingdom of France
Etienne de Poissy 	Priest of S. Eusebio 	September 22, 1368	Pope Urban V 	Grand penitentiary
Francesco Tebaldeschi 	Priest of S. Sabina 	September 22, 1368	Pope Urban V 	
Pietro Corsini 	Priest of S. Lorenzo in Damaso 	1370, June 7 	Pope Urban V 	
Pierre Roger de Beaufort 
(elected Pope Gregory XI)	Deacon of S. Maria Nuova 	1348, May 29 	Pope Clement VI (Cardinal-nephew) 	Protodeacon of the Sacred College of Cardinals; Archpriest of the patriarchal Lateran Basilica and of the patriarchal Liberian Basilica; Cardinal-protector of the Kingdom of Naples
Rinaldo Orsini 	Deacon of S. Adriano 	1350, December 17 	Pope Clement VI 	Archpriest of the patriarchal Vatican Basilica
Hugues de Saint-Martial 	Deacon of S. Maria in Portico 	1361, September 17	Pope Innocent VI 	
Nine electors were created by Pope Urban V, five by Clement VI and four by Innocent VI.
Post of the Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, the most important during sede vacante, was occupied by Arnaud AubertNiccolò del Re, La Curia romana: lineamenti storico giuridici, Città del Vaticano, 1998, p. 296, archbishop of Auch and nephew of Pope Innocent VI (but not a Cardinal).
==Absentees==
Two Cardinals, both created by Urban V, did not participate in this conclave, because they were in Italy:
Elector 	Cardinalatial Title 	Elevated 	Elevator 	Notes
Angelic de Grimoard, C.R.S.A.	Bishop of Albano 	1366, September 18	Pope Urban V (Cardinal-nephew)	Papal Vicar in Italy
Pierre d’Estaing, O.S.B. 	Priest of S. Maria in Trastevere	1370, June 7 	Pope Urban V (Cardinal-nephew)	Rector of the Duchy of Spoleto
==The election of Pope Gregory XI==
Eighteen cardinals present in Avignon entered the conclave on December 29. In the first ballot on the next day in the morning Cardinal Pierre Roger de Beaufort, nephew of Clement VI, protodeacon of the Sacred College, was unanimously elected PopeG. Mollat The Popes at Avignon 1305-1378, London 1963, p. 59. He initially opposed his election but eventually accepted and took the name of Gregory XI. On January 2, 1371 he was ordained to the priesthood, and on January 3 he was consecrated bishop of Rome by the dean of the College of Cardinals Guy de Boulogne, and crowned by the new protodeacon Rinaldo Orsini in the cathedral Notre Dame des Doms in AvignonS. Miranda Cardinal Pierre Roger de Beaufort (Pope Gregory XI).
==Notes==
==Sources==
*Salvador Miranda: list of participants of the papal conclave of 1370
*Pope Gregory XI
*G. Mollat, The Popes at Avignon 1305-1378, London 1963
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