Benedict XII
Birth name	Jacques Fournier
Papacy began	December 20, 1334
Papacy ended	April 25, 1342
Predecessor	John XXII
Successor	Clement VI
Born	ca. Events 69 - Vespasian, formerly a general under Nero, enters Rome to claim the title of Emperor. Events 1607 - Eighty Years' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar. Pope John (numbering Pope John XXII (1249 &ndash December 4, 1334) born Jacques Duèze (or d'Euse) was Pope from 1316 to 1334 Pope Clement VI (1291 &ndash December 6, 1352) born Pierre Roger, the fourth of the Avignon Popes, was Pope from May 1342 until his 1280s Saverdun, France
Died	April 25, 1342 Avignon, France
Other popes named Benedict

Pope Benedict XII (died April 25, 1342), born Jacques Fournier, was Pope from 1334 to 1342. Saverdun is a commune of the Ariège département in southwestern France. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Events 1607 - Eighty Years' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar. Avignon (/aviɲɔ̃/ in French) ( Provençal: Avinhon in classical norm or Avignoun in Mistralian norm is a commune This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Events 1607 - Eighty Years' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar. History See also History of the Papacy Catholics recognize the Pope as a successor to Saint Peter, who Jesus named as the "shepherd" and

Little is known of the origins of Jacques Fournier. He is believed to have been born in Saverdun in the Comté de Foix around the 1280s to a family of modest means. Saverdun is a commune of the Ariège département in southwestern France. The County of Foix was an independent medieval fief in Southern France, and later a Province of France, whose territory corresponded roughly the eastern He became a Cistercian monk and left to study at the University of Paris. MONK is a Monte Carlo software package for simulating nuclear processes particularly for the purpose of determining the neutron multiplication factor or k-effective The historic University of Paris (Université de Paris first appeared in the second half of the 13th century In 1311 he was made Abbot of Fontfroide Abbey and quickly became known for his intelligence and organizational ability. The word abbot, meaning Father, is a title given to the head of a Monastery in various traditions including Christianity. Fontfroide Abbey or l'Abbaye Sainte-Marie de Fontfroide is a former Cistercian Monastery in France, situated 15 kilometers south-west of In 1317 he was made bishop of Pamiers. Pamiers is a commune in the Ariège département in southwestern France. There he undertook a rigorous hunt for Cathar heretics, which won him praise from religious authorities, but alienated the local people.

His efforts against the Cathars of Montaillou in the Ariège, were carefully recorded in the Fournier Register which he took to Rome and deposited in the Vatican Library. Montaillou ( Occitan Montalhon) is a small village and commune in southern France. Ariège ( Occitan: Arièja) is a department in southwestern France named after the Ariège River. The Fournier Register is a set of records from the Inquisition into Heresy run by Jacques Fournier, Bishop of Pamiers between 1318 The Vatican Library ( Latin: Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana) is the Library of the Holy See, currently located in Vatican City. This has been documented by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie's pioneering microhistory, Montaillou, village occitan. Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (born 1929 is a noted French historian whose work is mainly focused upon Languedoc in the Ancien regime, focusing on the history Microhistory is a branch of the study of History. First developed in the 1970s microhistory is the study of the past on a very small scale In 1326, upon the successful rooting out of the last - it was believed - heretics of the south, he was made Bishop of Mirepoix in the Ariège. The former Catholic diocese of Mirepoix, in south-west France was created in 1317 by Pope John XXII from the Diocese of Pamiers. Ariège ( Occitan: Arièja) is a department in southwestern France named after the Ariège River. A year later, in 1327, he was made a cardinal. A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official usually a bishop, of the Catholic Church.

Fournier's Accession to the Papacy

Fournier succeeded Pope John XXII (1316–34) as Pope in 1334, being elected on the first conclave ballot. Pope John (numbering Pope John XXII (1249 &ndash December 4, 1334) born Jacques Duèze (or d'Euse) was Pope from 1316 to 1334 A papal conclave is a meeting of the College of Cardinals to elect the Pope (or Bishop of Rome) who is considered by Catholics to be the Successor But he did not carry out the policy of his predecessor. He practically made peace with the Emperor Louis IV, and as far as possible came to terms with the Franciscans, who were then at odds with the Roman See. Louis IV ( 1 April[[ 282]] &ndash 11 October 1347) called the Bavarian, of the house of Wittelsbach, was the Duke of Bavaria The term Franciscan is commonly used to refer to members of Catholic The Holy See is the episcopal jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome, commonly known as the Pope, and is the preeminent Episcopal see of the Roman Catholic

Benedict XII was a reforming pope who tried to curb the luxuries of the monastic orders, though without much success. Monasticism (from Greek μοναχός, monachos, derived from Greek monos, alone is the religious practice in which one He also ordered the construction of the Palais des Papes in Avignon. The Palais des Papes is a historical palace in Avignon, southern France, one of the largest and most important Medieval Gothic buildings in Avignon (/aviɲɔ̃/ in French) ( Provençal: Avinhon in classical norm or Avignoun in Mistralian norm is a commune He spent most of his time working on questions of theology. Theology is the study of a god or the gods from a religious perspective He rejected many of the ideas developed by John XXII and campaigned against the Immaculate Conception. For dogmatic context see Roman Catholic Mariology. For artistic depictions see Roman Catholic Marian art. He engaged in long theological debates with other noted figures of the age such as William of Ockham and Meister Eckhart

Pope Benedict XII's tomb, Cathédrale de Notre-Dame-des-Doms, Avignon

Papal numbering

A note on the numbering: Pope Benedict X is now considered an antipope. William of Ockham (also Occam, Hockham, or any of several other spellings ˈɒkəm (c Meister Eckhart OP (c 1260–c 1328 is the most common formula used to refer to Eckhart von Hochheim, a German theologian Avignon (/aviɲɔ̃/ in French) ( Provençal: Avinhon in classical norm or Avignoun in Mistralian norm is a commune Pope/Antipope Benedict X (reigned 1058&ndash1059 died ca. 1073 or 1080 was born John Mincius and later became Cardinal Bishop of Velletri. An antipope ( Latin: antipapa) is a person who makes a widely accepted claim to be the lawful Pope, in opposition to the pope recognised by the Roman At the time, however, this status was not recognized and so the man the Roman Catholic church officially considers the tenth true Pope Benedict took the official number XI, rather than X. This has advanced the numbering of all subsequent Popes Benedict by one. Popes Benedict XI-XVI are, from an official point of view, the tenth through fifteenth popes by that name.