Editing Pope Nicholas IV (section)

===Papal conclave===
After the death of [[Pope Honorius IV]] on 3 April 1287, [[Papal election, 1287-1288|a conclave]] was held in Rome, at the papal palace next to Santa Sabina on the Aventine Hill, where Pope Honorius had died.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/SV1287.html| title = Sede Vacante and Conclave of 1287-1288 (Dr. J. P. Adams).}}</ref> This was in accordance with the Constitution ''[[Ubi periculum]]'' of Pope Gregory X. At the beginning, in April, there were thirteen cardinals in Rome; three cardinals—Gerardo Bianchi, Giovanni Boccamati, and Jean Cholet—did not attend at all. The Sacred College was for a time hopelessly divided in its selection of a successor. When six of the electors died during the year 1287 (Ancher Pantaleon, Geoffrey de Bar, Hugh of Evesham, Giordano Orsini, Comes de Casanate, and Goffredo of Alatri—some, at least, carried off by fever), the others, with the sole exception of Jerome Masci, left the conclave and returned to their homes. It was not until the following year that they reassembled. The electors at that time were seven in number: Jerome Masci, along with Latino Malabranca, Bentivenga de Bentivengis, Bernard de Languissel, Matteo Rosso Orsini, Giacomo Colonna, and Benedetto Caetani. On 15 February 1288, the survivors unanimously elected Jerome Masci, to the papacy on the first scrutiny. It is said that the cardinals were impressed by his steadfastness in remaining at the papal palace, but there is no real documentation as to their motives. As he admitted in his electoral manifesto, Cardinal Masci was extremely reluctant to accept,<ref>''Judicia Dei abyssus''  in  A. Theiner, ''Caesaris S.R.E. Card. Baronii Annales Ecclesiastici'' 23 (Bar-le-Duc 1871), under the year 1288, § 5; p. 25; V. Langlois, ''Registres de Nicolas IV'' I, pp. 1-3 no. 1 (February 23, 1288).</ref> and indeed he persisted in his refusal for an entire week. Finally, on 22 February, he gave in and agreed.<ref>This is the story told by [[Heinrich of Rebdorf]], in  Marquardi Freheri, ''Rerum Germanicarum Scriptores'' editio tertia (curante Burcardo Gotthelffio Struvio) Tomus Primus (Argentorati: sumptibus Ioannis Reinholdi Dulsseckerii 1717), p. 605.</ref> He became the first [[Franciscan]] pope and chose the name Nicholas IV in remembrance of Nicholas III, who had made him a cardinal.<ref name=Weber/>