Editing Pope Martin IV (section)

==Three Conclaves of 1276==
Simon de Brion's appointment as Legate in France, made by Pope Gregory on 1 August 1274<ref>A. Theiner, ''Caesaris S.R.E. Card. Baronii Annales Ecclesiastici''  22 (Bar-le-Duc 1870), p. 334, under the year 1274, no. 35-36; Richard Sternfeld , ''Der Kardinal Johann Gaetan Orsini (Papst Nikolaus III) 1244–1277'' (Berlin 1905) 241.</ref> continued throughout 1276.  He was unable to be present for the Conclave of 1 January 1276,<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/SV1276.html| title = Conclave of 20–21 January 1276 (Dr. J. P. Adams).}}</ref> which elected Peter of Tarantaise as [[Pope Innocent V]].  Nor was he present for the Conclave of 2–11 July,<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/SV1276b.html| title = Conclave of 2–11 July 1276 (Dr. J. P. Adams).}}</ref> which elected Ottobono Fieschi as [[Pope Adrian V]].  Nor was he present at the September Conclave, which, on 8 September, elected Peter Julian as [[Pope John XXI]].<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/SV1276c.html| title = Conclave of September, 1276 (Dr. J. P. Adams).}}</ref> In each case the election was completed before he could have been notified, and before he could have travelled from France to central Italy.  This was one of the defects of Gregory X's regulations on the holding of a Conclave.