Editing Pope Urban V (section)

===Naples===

King [[Louis I of Naples]] died on 25 May 1362.  This set off a power struggle, with [[Joanna I of Naples|Queen Joanna I]] attempting to get back the power she had lost to her husband, as well as a contest to see who her next husband would be.  Abbot Guillaume was summoned to Avignon, where he was on 27 June, and sent to Naples to provide the advice and guidance as to the desires of the feudal overlord of Naples, Pope Innocent VI.<ref>Chaillan, pp. 20–21.</ref>

During his trip to the south, he visited the great Benedictine abbey of [[Monte Cassino]], where he was saddened to see the state into which it had fallen, both physically and organizationally, both from earthquakes and episcopal neglect.  As soon as he became Pope he undertook to repair the situation,<ref>{{cite book|author=Luigi Tosti|title=Storia della Badia di Monte-Cassino, 3: divisa in libri nove|url=https://archive.org/details/storiadellabadia03tost_0|year=1843|publisher=Stablimento Poligrafico di Filippo Cirelli|location=Naples|language=it|pages=[https://archive.org/details/storiadellabadia03tost_0/page/52 52]–55}}</ref> and on 31 March 1367 he abolished the diocese of Cassino and restored the monastery to the complete control of its Abbot.<ref>{{cite book|editor=Tomassetti, Aloysius|title=Bullarum, diplomatum et privilegiorum sanctorum romanorum pontificum Taurinensis editio|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DCxOAQAAMAAJ|edition=Tomus IV|year=1859|publisher=Seb. Franco et Henrico Dalmazzo editoribus|location=Turin|language=la|pages=523–524}}</ref>