Benedict XIV (antipope)

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Benedict XIV. (* Around 1370 in southern France; † after 1450; actually Bernard Garnier ) was founded on November 12, 1425 as one of the two successors of the antipope Benedict XIII. elected. (In 1423 Clement VIII was elected as successor to Benedict XIII.)

Benedict XIII. had already been declared deposed by the Council of Constance in 1417 in favor of the newly elected Martin V in order to end the occidental schism . But he refused to acknowledge his removal. After his death, the four of Benedict XIII. appointed cardinals do not agree on a common (antipope) candidate. The French Cardinal Jean Carrier was the legate of the previous Pope, while his three colleagues already elected Clement VIII on June 10, 1423 in Peñíscola as his successor. After his return, Carrier did not agree to this election and raised Bernard Garnier, previously Domkustos in Rodez , to the "antipope of the antipope". Garnier first appears in 1412 as a cleric of the Rodez diocese in contemporary sources. Like Jean Carrier, he asked Benedict XIII. a benefice and received it. He retained his office in the chapter of Rodez, albeit against hostility and resistance from the rest of the cathedral priests. Carrier declared in a memorandum to Count Jean IV of Armagnac in 1429 that there was a Pope Benedict XIV, but without giving any details about his person.

This choice no longer had any practical effects, as already at the time of Benedict XIII. almost all countries (except Aragon ) recognized Martin V as Pope. The end of his counterparty, about which almost nothing has been passed on, is 1430. At this point, Jean IV confessed to Pope Martin V, and Carrier and Garnier lost their aristocratic advocate. Carrier went into hiding, was captured in 1433 and died a little later. Bernard Garnier hid in the Viaur with some followers , but returned to Rodez in 1437 and took his place in the cathedral chapter again. In 1449 he was even able to take one of the most sought-after houses in the cathedral chapter as his apartment. The following year he litigated his prebend before the parliament in Toulouse. In contrast to Jean Carrier, Garnier was able to return to his clerical life, even if he remained controversial throughout his life. After his return in 1437, he no longer referred to his election as antipope. The date of his death is unknown.

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