Editing 1415 (section)

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 6]] &ndash; The decree ''[[Haec sancta synodus]]'' is approved by the [[Council of Constance]] and sets the precedent that an [[ecumenical council]] of cardinals and bishops has superiority over the Pope. The decree provides that a council "legitimately assembled in the Holy Spirit... has power immediately from Christ; and that everyone of whatever state or dignity, even papal (in the Latin text,''etiam si papalis''), is bound to obey it in those matters which pertain to the faith."<ref>{{cite book|editor-last=Tanner|editor-first=Norman P.|year=1990|title=Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils|volume=1|location=Washington, DC|publisher=Georgetown University Press|isbn=0878404902|pages=409–10}}</ref> 
* [[April 30]] &ndash; [[Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg|Frederick I]] becomes [[Elector of Brandenburg]].
* [[May 4]] &ndash; The [[Council of Constance]] declares that the late English theologian [[John Wycliffe]] (1328-1384) was a heretic and bans his writings, as well as directing that his work be burned, and that Wycliffe's remains be removed from their burial site on consecrated church ground.<ref>{{cite web |last=Conti |first=Alessandro |title=John Wyclif |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wyclif/ |access-date=3 June 2019 |website=[[Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]] }}</ref> The order will be carried out 13 years later in [[1428]]. 
* [[May 11]] &ndash; From [[Valencia]] in Spain, the [[Antipope Benedict XIII]] issues a [[papal bull]] with eleven prohibitions against Jews, including a ban on teaching, reading or possessing the [[Talmud]]; prohibition of Jewish possession of Christian artifacts or Christian books; limiting each town to only one [[synagogue]]; barring Jews from serving specific jobs or making contracts; segregating Jews from Christians in all public places; and requiring all Jews to wear "a red and yellow sign" on their clothes. Jews who convert to the Roman Catholic faith become exempt from the restrictions<ref>E. H. Lindo, ''[https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_History_of_the_Jews_of_Spain_and_Por/vgFaAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Benedict+XIII+1415+Jews+May&pg=PA214&printsec=frontcover The History of the Jews of Spain and Portugal, from the Earliest Times to Their Final Expulsion from Those Kingdoms and Their Subsequent Dispersion]'' (Longman, 1848) pp.213-215</ref>
* [[May 29]] &ndash; The [[Council of Constance]] approves an order dismissing, ''[[Trial in absentia|in absentia]]'' the [[Antipope John XXIII]], who had been chosen by the Council of Pisa, from any authority over the Roman Catholic Church.
* [[June 5]] &ndash; The Council of Constance condemns the writings of [[John Wycliffe]] and asks [[Jan Hus]] to recant in public his [[Christian heresy|heresy]]; after his denial, he is tried for heresy, excommunicated, then sentenced to be burned at the stake.