Editing Avignon Papacy (section)

==Effects on the papacy==
The relationship between the papacy and France changed drastically over the course of the 14th century. Starting with open conflict between [[Pope Boniface VIII]] and King Philip IV of France, it turned to cooperation from 1305 to 1342, and finally to a papacy under strong influence by the French throne up to 1378. Such partisanship of the papacy was one of the reasons for the dropping esteem for the institution, which in turn was one of the reasons for the [[Western Schism|schism]] from 1378 to 1417.

In the period of the Schism, the power struggle in the papacy became a battlefield of the major powers, with France supporting the antipopes in [[Avignon]] and England supporting the popes in [[Rome]]. At the end of the century, still in the state of schism, the papacy had lost most of its direct political power, and the [[nation state]]s of France and England were established as two of the main powers in Europe.