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49. CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE POPES, ETC. 209

['Schaff, Philip, 1819-1893', 'Schaff, David S. (David Schley), 1852-1941'] • Public-domain historical edition in the United States (published 1884); OCR from Internet Archive scan

49. CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE POPES, ETC. 209

A. D.

POPES.

ANTI-POPES.

EMPERORS.

A. D.

1378-1394

Clement VII.

1 389- 1 404 1 Boniface IX.

Wenzel (of Luxem

1394-1423

Benedict XIII.

burg).

1378-1400

deposed, 1409)

1404-140G

Innocent VII.

Rupert (of the Pala

1406 -1409

Gregory XII.

(deposed).

tinate).

1400-1410

1410-1415

Alexander V.

1410-1415

John XXIII.

(deposed).

*Sigismund (of Lux

emburg).

1410-1437

(Jobst of Moravia,

1417-1431

Martin V.

Clement VIII.

rival.)

1431-1447

Eugene IV.

1439-1449

Felix V.

Albert II. (of Hapsburg).

1438-1439

1447-1455

Xieolas V.

^Frederick III.1

1440-1493

1455-1458

Calixtns IV.

Crowned emperor.

1458-1464

Pius II.

1464-1471

Paul II.

1471-1484 1484-1492

Sixtus IV. Innocent VIII.

Maximilian I.

1493-1519

1492-1503

Alexander VI.

Pius III.

1503-1513 1513-1521

Julius II. Leo X.

*Charles V.

1519-1558

Crowned emperor at

1522-1523

Hadrian VI.

Bologna not in Rome

1523-1534

Clement VII.

1534-1549

Paul III.

1550-1555

Julius III.

1555-1559

Marrellus II. Paul IV.

Ferdinand I.

1558-1564

1559-1565

Pius IV.

1566-1572

Pius V.

1572-1585 Gregory XIII. 1585-1590 Sixtus V.

Maximilian II.

1564-1576

1590 Urban VII.

1590-1591 Gregory XIV.

1591 i Innocent IX.

1592-1605 Clement VIII.

Rudolf II.

1576-1612

Leo XI.

1605-1621

Paul V.

Matthias.

1612-1619

1621-16 23 ' ( J regorv X V.

Ferdinand II. 1619-1637

1623-1644, Urban VI 1 1.

1644-1655 Innocent X.

Ferdinand III. ' 1637-1657

1655 1667 Alexander VII

1667-1669 Clement IX.

Leopold I.

1657-1705

1 Frederick III. was the last emperor crowned in Rome. All his successors, except Charles VII. and Francis I., were of the House of Hapsburg.

FOURTH PERIOD. A. D. 590-1049.

A. D.

POPES.

ANTI-POPES.

EMPERORS.

A.D.

1G07-1G76

Clement X.

1676-1689

Innocent XI.

1689-1691

Alex'derVIII.

1691-1700

Innocent XII.

1700-1721

Clement XI.

Joseph I.

1705-1711

1721-1724 1724-1730 1730-1740 1740-1758

Innocent XIII. Benedict XIII. Clement XII. Benedict XIV.

Charles VI. Charles VII. (of Ba varia). Francis I. (of Lor raine).

1711-1740 1742-1745 1745-1765

1758-1769

Clement XIII.

Joseph II.

1765-1790

1769-1774

Clement XIV.

1775-1799

Pius VI.

Leopold II.

1790-1792

Francis II.

1792-1806

1800-1823

Pius VII.

Abdication of Fran

1823-1829

Leo XII.

cis II.

1829-1830 1831-1846 1846-1878

Pius VIII. Gregory XVI. Pius IX. (long est reign).

(Francis I., Emperor of Austria). German Confederation

North German Con federation.

1814-1866 1866-1870

Leo XIII.

New German Empire.

William I. of Prussia.

1870]

\ 50. GEEGORY THE GREAT. A.D. 590-604. 211

§ 50. Gregory the Great. A.D. 590-604.

LITERATURE.

I. GREGORII M. Opera. The best is the Benedictine ed. of Dom. de Ste

Marthe (Dionysiua Sammarthanus o congregationo St. Mauri), Par., 1705, 4 vols. fol. Reprinted in Venice, 17G8-76, in 17 vols. 4to.; and, with additions, in IVIigue's Patrologia, 1849, in 5 vols. (Tom. 75-79).

Especially valuable arc Gregory's Epistles, nearly 850 (in third vol. of Migne's cd.). A new ed. is being prepared by Paul Ewald.

II. Biographies of Gregory L

(1) Older biographies : in the "Liber Pontificalis ;" by PAULUS DIACONUS

(f797), in Opera I. 42 (ed. Migne) ; by JOHANNES DIACONUS (9th cent.), ibid., p. 59, and one selected from his writings, ibid., p. 242. Detailed notices of Gregory in the writings of Gregory of Tours, Bede, Isidorus Hispal., Paul Warnefried (730).

(2) Modern biographies :

G. LAU : Gregor L nach seincm Leben und nach seiner Lehrc. Leipz., 1845. BOIIUIXGER : Die Kirche Christl und Hire Zeucjen. Bd. I., Abth. IV.

Zurich, 1846.

G. PFAHLER : Gregor der Gr. und seine Zeit. Frkf. a. M., 1852. JAMES BARMBY: Gregory the Great. London, 1879. Also his art.

"Gregorius I." in Smith & Wace, "Diet, of Christ. Biogr.," II. 779

(1880). Comp. JAFFE, NEANDER, MILMAX (Book III., ch. 7, vol. II., 39 sqq.);

GREENWOOD (Book III., chs. 6 and 7); MOXTALEMBERT (Lesmoines

d' Occident, Bk. V., Engl. transl., vol. II., 69 sqq.); BAXMANN (Poli-

tik der Pupate, I. 44 sqq.) ; ZOPFFEL (art. Gregor I. in the- new ed.

of Herzog).

" Whatever may be thought of the popes of earlier times," says Ranke,1 " they always had great interests in view : the care of oppressed religion, the conflict with heathenism, the spread of Christianity among the northern nations, the founding of an independent hierarchy. It belongs to the dignity of human ex istence to aim at and to execute something great ; this tendency the popes kept in upward motion."

This commendation of the earlier popes, though by no means applicable to all, is eminently true of the one who stands at the beginning of our period.

1 Die Rdmischen Piipste des 16 und lltcn Jahrhundc-rts, Th. L, p. 44 (2nd ed.).

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