Gerhart B. Ladner
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Emeritus Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles, 1963β78. Author of Die Papstbildnisse des Altertums und des Mittelalters.
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Boniface VIII was the pope, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, from 1294 to 1303. The extent of his authority was vigorously challenged by the emergent powerful monarchs of western Europe, especially Philip IV of France, whose royal agents orchestrated a plot to abduct the pope. His conflictβ¦
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