Michael of Cesena

…antipope as Nicholas V, and Michael of Cesena, general of the Franciscan order, appealed to the authority of a church council against John. John thereupon excommunicated Peter and deposed Michael. When Louis returned to Germany in 1329, Peter submitted to John and was subsequently imprisoned at Avignon. The Emperor attempted,…

1, 1327, the Franciscan general Michael of Cesena arrived in Avignon and stayed at the same convent; he, too, had been summoned by the pope in connection with the dispute over the holding of property. They were at odds over the theoretical problem of whether Christ and his Apostles had…

…group of Franciscans led by Michael of Cesena, minister-general of the order, and William of Ockham became bitter and formidable critics of the papacy. With them for a time was the Italian political philosopher Marsilius of Padua, a Paris master who in his Defensor pacis (1324; “Defender of the Peace”)…