Clement VIII (Antipope) - Encyclopedia

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CLEMENT VIII. (Aegidius Munoz), antipope from 1425 to the 26th of July 1429, was a canon at Barcelona until elected at Peniscola by three cardinals whom the stubborn antipope Benedict XIII. had named on his death-bed. Clement was immediately recognized by Alphonso V. of Aragon, who was hostile to Pope Martin V. on account of the latter's opposition to his claims to the kingdom of Naples, but abdicated as soon as an agreement was reached between Alphonso and Martin through the exertions of Cardinal Pierre de Foix, an able diplomat and relation of the king's. Clement spent his last years as bishop of Majorca, and died on the 28th of December 1446.

See L. Pastor, History of the Popes, vol. i. trans. by F. I. Antrobus (London, 1899); M. Creighton, History of the Papacy, vol. ii.`(London, 1899); and consult bibliography on MARTIN V. (C. H. HA.)