Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time : comprising the development of social institutions and the story of all nations . l with Pope Boni-face VIII. This pontiff had in 1295 interferedio prevent a war between France and Eng-land, and had gone so far as to commandrhUip to make a treaty with King Edward. tho violence of action. PhUip determinedthat the Holy Father should attend a councilwhich had been called at Lyons. In order tcsecure this end he sent a body of pickedtroop
Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time : comprising the development of social institutions and the story of all nations . l with Pope Boni-face VIII. This pontiff had in 1295 interferedio prevent a war between France and Eng-land, and had gone so far as to commandrhUip to make a treaty with King Edward. tho violence of action. PhUip determinedthat the Holy Father should attend a councilwhich had been called at Lyons. In order tcsecure this end he sent a body of pickedtroops into Italy with orders to bring , nolens volens, into France. This bandof soldiers, led by a certain Norgaret, madetheir way to Anagnia, the native town ofBoniface, where the pontiff was then was at this time in a partisan broil, thegreat family of the Colonnse having arrayedthemselves against the Pope and virtuallydriven him into retirement. This fact gave 9 48 UNIVERSAL HISTORY.—THE MODERN WORLD. great advantage to Norgaret and his baud,who were accompanied to Anagnia by one ofthe Colonnre, ready for any desperate enter-prise. The people of the town were bribed toadmit the invaders, and they found little dif-. BOSIFArE STRUCK BY by Yierge. wliich had been made upon him by his ene-mies. An insurrection broke out, in was rescued from the French andthe latter expelled from Anagnia. The haughty spirit of the Pope could notrecover from thehorrid outrage whichhe had suffered. Hefell into a violentfever and went mad,raving at aU who-approached him, andgnawing off his ownfingers in the strug-gle of death. Thusin the year 1303 thepapal throne wasvacated, to be pres-ently refilled by th&more benign andequable temperedBenedict XI. Thepontificate of thelatter, however, wasdestined to be ofshort duration. Aftera few months spentin a seemingly vainendeavor to heal thedissensions of histimes, he died, andwas succeeded byBertrand de Got,
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