Pope Clement VII

It does not conform to the history of the church.

He says, everybody thought that Clement VII was a pope.

but he turned out to have been any pope.

He said all the people of Rome, they thought that he was the pope.

He says...

No, this was not a true pope because someone else was elected earlier in time.

So it was with Clement VII.

Someone else, Pope Urban, was elected earlier in time.

According to Irenaeus, the first bishop or overseer of the Church of Rome was appointed by Paul was Linus.

Second one was Clement.

He said Peter only died there.

Now, with the biblical evidence that I've just presented to you, you can decide for yourself whether Peter was ever in Rome, let alone from 42 to 67.

In 1305, seven consecutive popes live in Avion, France.

In 1378, cardinals elected Urban VI as pope.

Soon they announced they had made a terrible mistake as they said that Urban was an apostate, so they elected Clement VII.

Urban appointed a set of new cardinals.

This was regarded as an announcement that Anne had consented to become the king's mistress, which was probably the fact.

Pope Clement VII thought that such an arrangement would end the question of the king's divorce and accepted the royal nomination of Thomas Cranmer as Archbishop of Canterbury in Warham's stead.

But before the bulls for his confirmation had arrived, Anne was with child, and it was necessary for her offspring to be born in lawful wedlock.

She was privately married to Henry sometime in January 1533.

The Dutch scholar who had taken Leo's place lived less than two years.

Then, on the 19th of November, 1523, Giulio was elected Pope Clement VII.

For years, he had been the family's patient second man, running Florence while his cousin wore the crown.

And now, his turn had come.

Back in August of 1531, Blado had secured a papal privilege for Niccolo's works.

This was a formal license from the pope, granting permission to print and making the whole enterprise legal in the church's eyes.

The privilege carried the name of the pope who granted it, Clement VII.

You'll remember him as the Medici cardinal who had once governed Florence, the man who had paid Niccolo 120 gold ducats for his Florentine histories.

There Leva gallantly held out until Bourbon had reinforced Pescara's army.

Even then the Imperialists were in great difficulty, for Charles was unable to send them money to pay their troops, and Pope Clement VII, breaking his alliance with the Emperor, was arranging to join the French.

Francis was so sure of victory that he dispatched ten thousand men under the Duke of Albany to Naples, and also encouraged an attack on Genoa.

On January twenty-fourth, fifteen twenty-five, Pescara's army, reinforced by Bourbon's German levies under Frundsberg, and now little inferior to the French except in artillery and cavalry, marched out of Lodi and advanced upon Pavia.

By this treaty Francis, one, restored the Duchy of Burgundy to Charles, two, renounced all rights to Milan, Naples, and Genoa, and the suzerainty over Flanders, Artois, and Tournai, three, agreed to give no further help to the Duke of Hilders or to the d'Albre in Navarre, and four, undertook to marry Eleonora of Portugal, the widowed sister of Charles, who had previously been promised to Bourbon.

In March Francis set out for France, after leaving his two little sons as hostages, and promising to return to imprisonment if he could not persuade his subjects to agree to the treaty.

In May 1526, having been absolved from his oath by Clement VII, he joined the Pope, Venice, Florence, and Francesco Sforza in the Holy League of Cognac, which had for its objects the establishment of the independence of Italy and the release of the two French princes.

Henry VIII did not join the league, but was invited to become its protector.

Now, do you remember what, [laughs] uh, Archbishop Vigano said after that? He said, "No, that's not right.

It does not conform to the history of the church." He says, "Everybody thought that Clement VII was the pope, but he turned out to have been an antipope." He said, "All the, the, uh, the, uh, people of Rome, they thought that he was the pope." Matter of fact, you could say the same thing of, uh, Anacletus II.

The entire Roman populace thought he was the real pope, but later there was a trial at the s- um, Second Lateran Council, and St. Bernard of Clairvaux, uh, was there.

He w- he was a expert witness.

He says, "No, this was not a true pope, um, because someone else was elected earlier in time." So it was with Clement VII.

Someone else, Pope Urban, was elected earlier in time.

And that was the decision, uh, that was, uh, arrived at at the Council of Constance 39 years later.