Papal conclave, 1342

Papal conclave May 1342
Coat of arms during the vacancy of the Holy See
Dates and location
5–7 May 1342 Palais des Papes, Avignon
Key officials
Dean	Pierre Desprès
Camerlengo	Gasbert de Valle
Protopriest	Imbert Dupuis
Protodeacon	Raymond Guillaume des Farges
Elected Pope
Pierre Roger (Name taken: Clement VI)

Papal conclave of 5 May to 7 May 1342 – the papal conclave convened after the death of Pope Benedict XII, it elected Cardinal Pierre Roger, who became the fourth Pope of the period of Avignon Papacy under the name Clement VI.

Cardinal electors

Pope Benedict XII died at Avignon on 25 April 1342. At the time of his death, there were nineteen Cardinals in the Sacred College, of whom seventeen participated in the subsequent conclave:^[1]

Elector	Title	Elevated	Elevator	Notes^[2]
Pierre Desprès	Bishop of Palestrina	20 December 1320	John XXII	Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals; Vice-Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church
Bertrand du Pouget	Bishop of Ostia e Velletri	17 December 1316	John XXII	nephew of John XXII
Jean-Raymond de Comminges	Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina	18 December 1327	John XXII
Annibaldo di Ceccano	Bishop of Frascati	18 December 1327	John XXII
Pedro Gómez de Barroso	Bishop of Sabina	18 December 1327	John XXII
Imbert du Puy	Priest of SS. XII Apostoli	18 December 1327	John XXII	Protopriest and Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals nephew of John XXII
Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord	Priest of S. Pietro in Vincoli	25 May 1331	John XXII	Cardinal-protector of the Order of Franciscans
Pierre Bertrand	Priest of S. Clemente	20 December 1331	John XXII
Gozzio Battaglia	Priest of S. Prisca	December 18, 1338	Benedict XII
Bertrand de Déaulx	Priest of S. Marco	18 December 1338	Benedict XII
Pierre Roger, O.S.B.	Priest of SS. Nereo ed Achilleo	18 December 1338	Benedict XII	Elected Pope Clement VI
Guillaume Court, O.Cist.	Priest of SS. IV Coronati	18 December 1338	Benedict XII	nephew of John XXII
Bernard d’Albi	Priest of S. Ciriaco alle Terme	18 December 1338	Benedict XII
Guillaume d'Aure, O.S.B.	Priest of S. Stefano al Monte Celio	January 1339	Benedict XII
Raymond Guillaume des Farges	Deacon of S. Maria Nuova	19 December 1310	Clement V	Protodeacon of the Sacred College of Cardinals; nephew of John XXII
Gaillard de la Mothe	Deacon of S. Lucia in Silice	17 December 1316	John XXII
Giovanni Colonna	Deacon of S. Angelo in Pescheria	18 December 1327	John XXII

Ten electors were creatures of John XXII, six of Benedict XII and one of Clement V. Thirteen of them were French, three Italian and one Spanish.

The post of the Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church was occupied at that time by Gasbert de Valle,^[3] Archbishop of Narbonne (not a Cardinal) and nephew of Pope John XXII.

Absentee cardinals

Two French Cardinals, both elevated by John XXII, did not participate in this conclave:^[1]

Elector	Cardinalatial Title	Elevated	Elevator	Notes^[2]
Gauscelin de Jean	Bishop of Albano	December 17, 1316	John XXII	Grand penitentiary; nephew of John XXII
Bertrand de Montfavez	Deacon of S. Maria in Aquiro	December 17, 1316	John XXII	Archpriest of the patriarchal Lateran Basilica

The election of Pope Clement VI

The conclave started on May 5 and lasted only two days. On May 7 Cardinal Pierre Roger, former Chancellor of the Kingdom of France, was unanimously elected Pope, "by divine inspiration alone", as reported shortly thereafter Cardinals des Farges and Ceccano.^[4] Elect took the name of Clement VI. On May 19 new Pope was crowned in the church of the Dominicans in Avignon by Raymond Guillaume des Farges, protodeacon of S. Maria Nuova.^[5]

Shortly after the death of Benedict XII king Philip VI of France sent to Avignon his eldest son with the task to support the candidature of Cardinal Roger, but when he arrived, the election had been already accomplished with the result expected by the king.^[4]

Notes

1 2 Salvador Miranda Conclave of 1342.
1 2 Notes according to the biographical entries of the respective cardinals on The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church: Consistories for the creation of Cardinals, 14th Century (1303-1404) by Salvador Miranda
↑ Niccolò del Re, La Curia romana: lineamenti storico giuridici, Città del Vaticano, 1998, p. 296
1 2 G. Mollat, p. 37
↑ S. Miranda: Cardinal Pierre Roger (Pope Clement VI)

Sources

List of participants of the conclave of 1342 by Salvador Miranda
G. Mollat "The Popes at Avignon 1305-1378", London 1963
Wrigley, J.E. 1982. "The Conclave and the Electors of 1342". Archivum Historiae Pontificiae Roma, 20: 51-81.

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