Editing Pope Urban VI (section)

==Election==
[[File:Western schism 1378-1417.svg|thumb|Map showing support for Avignon (red) and Rome (blue) during the Western Schism]]
On the death of [[Gregory XI]] (27 March 1378), a Roman mob surrounded the [[Papal conclave, 1378|conclave]] to demand a Roman pope be chosen. With the cardinals being under some haste and great pressure to avoid the return of the papal seat to [[Avignon]], Prignano was unanimously chosen Pope on 8 April 1378 as acceptable to the disunited<ref>Pastor 118.</ref> majority of French [[Catholic cardinal|cardinals]], taking the name ''Urban VI''. Not being a cardinal, he was not well known. Immediately following the conclave, most of the cardinals fled Rome before the mob could learn that not a Roman (though not a Frenchman either), but a subject of Queen [[Joan I of Naples]], had been chosen.

Though the coronation was carried out in scrupulous detail, leaving no doubt as to the legitimacy of the new pontiff,<ref>Pastor 119f.</ref><ref>Bernhard Schimmelpfennig (translated by James Sievert), ''[https://archive.org/details/papacy0000schi_x5t1 The Papacy]'' ({{ISBN|0-231-07515-4}}), p. 220. Quote: "The next day, after Prignano had called upon them to do so, most of the cardinals came back to the palace and enthroned him. Prignano gave himself the name of Urban VI. The cardinals presented him with the customary petitions, and then took part in worship services being held not for the new pope but in celebration of Holy Week, before the new pontiff was crowned on Easter Sunday, April 18. The cardinals stayed at his court for the next three months, assisting him with liturgical functions. The curia that had remained in Rome likewise seemed to have acknowledged him."</ref> the French were not particularly happy with this move and began immediately to conspire against this pope. Urban VI did himself no favors; whereas the cardinals had expected him pliant, he was considered arrogant and angry by many of his contemporaries. [[Dietrich of Nieheim]] reported the opinion of the cardinals that his elevation had turned his head,<ref>Pastor 122.</ref> and [[Froissart]], [[Leonardo Aretino]], Tommaso de Acerno<ref>Tomasso de Acerno, ''De creatione Urbani VI opusculum.''</ref> and St. [[Antoninus of Florence]] recorded similar conclusions.<ref>Drawn together by [[Alfred von Reumont]] (ii, 1024), Pastor notes.</ref>