Editing Pope Clement V (section)

===Relations with Rome===
[[File: Sou d'or de Clément V frappé à Sorgues 1310.jpg|thumb|Sou coin depicting Clement V, 1310]]
In March 1309, the entire papal court moved from Poitiers to the [[Comtat Venaissin]], around the city of [[Avignon]].{{sfn|Menache|2002|p=2}} This move, actually to [[Carpentras]], the capital of the territory, was justified at the time by French apologists on grounds of security, since Rome, where the dissensions of the Roman aristocrats and their armed militia had reached a [[nadir]] and the [[Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano]] had been destroyed in a fire, was unstable and dangerous. But the decision proved the precursor of the long [[Avignon Papacy]], the "Babylonian captivity" (1309–77), in [[Petrarch]]'s phrase.{{sfn|Menache|2002|p=2}}

Clement V's pontificate was also a disastrous time for Italy. The [[Papal States]] were entrusted to a team of three cardinals, but Rome, the battleground of the [[Colonna family|Colonna]] and [[Orsini family|Orsini]] factions, was ungovernable. In 1310, the [[Holy Roman Emperor]] [[Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor|Henry VII]] entered Italy, established the [[Visconti of Milan|Visconti]] as [[vicar]]s in [[Milan]], and was crowned by Clement V's legates in Rome in 1312 before he died near [[Siena]] in 1313.<ref name="duffy"/>

In [[Ferrara]], which was taken into the Papal States to the exclusion of the [[House of Este|Este]] family, papal armies [[War of Ferrara (1308–1313)|clashed]] with the [[Republic of Venice]] and its populace. When [[excommunication]] and [[Interdict (Catholic canon law)|interdict]] failed to have their intended effect, Clement V preached a [[crusade]] against the Venetians in May 1309, declaring that Venetians captured abroad might be sold into slavery, like non-Christians.<ref>Davidson, p. 40.</ref>