Pope Eugene IV

Also known as: Eugene IV / Eugenie / Eugenie the fourth / Eugenius / pope Eugenie the fourth / pope Eugenius the fourth · Family: Church · Role: pope · First appears: Henry VI 19

Life events

• c. 1431 · Nicholas secured a six-year truce, but French forces soon broke it by seizing Chartres.(Henry VI 19 · 📍 Chartres)
  • With: Nicholas (cardinal of the holie crosse)
  • “he wan so much at their hands by earnest sute, that a truce was granted to indure for six yeares to come: but as the same was hardlie granted, so was it of the Frenchmen soone and lightlie broken. For the bastard of Orleance newlie made earle of Dunois, tooke by treson the towne of Chartres from the Englishmen”
• 1431 · Martin V died, and Eugene IV succeeded him as pope.(Henry VI 22)
  • With: Pope Martin V
  • “did anon after deceasse: whom Eugenie the fourth succéeding”
• 1431 · Eugene IV confirmed the Basel council and sent Julian Cesarini as his legate.(Henry VI 22 · 📍 Basill)
  • With: Julian Cesarini
  • “whom Eugenie the fourth succéeding, and liking right well of the time and place, by his authority signified and sent with Iulian Cesarine his legat, did confirme the choise.”
• 1431 · Eugene IV ordered Julian Cesarini to dissolve the Basel council and appoint another at Ferrara.(Henry VI 22 · 📍 Ferrar)
  • With: Julian Cesarini
  • “commanded his legat by and by to dissolue that synod, and in his name to appoint a new at Ferrar, and so come his waie”
• 1437 · Eugene revoked his bulls previously issued to Thomas Bourchier.(Henry VI 33)
  • With: Thomas Bourchier
  • “Eugenius (when he saw no other remedie) did reuoke his buls made before to Thomas Bourchier, in the yeare of Christ 1437”
• 1439 · The Basel council deposed Eugene IV and elected Amadeus VIII as pope.(Henry VI 22 · 📍 Basill)
  • With: Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy
  • “they soone after like verie impious imps, first for contumacie accurssed his holie fatherhood, then depriued him of his papasie, and out of hand chose another in his office, one Amedius late duke of Sauoie”
• c. 1461 · Pope Eugene IV made Iohn Kempe a cardinal.(Henry VI 66 · 📍 S. Albin)
  • With: John Kemp
  • “Iohn Kempe, archbishop of Yorke, and after remooued from thense to Canturburie (as before ye haue heard) he was made cardinall of S. Albin, by pope Eugenie the fourth;”
• c. 1483 · Walter Hunt was sent to councils at Ferrara and Florence by pope Eugene IV.(Edward IV 41)
  • With: Walter Hunt
  • “Walter Hunt a Carmelit frier, a great diuine, and for his excellencie in learning sent from the whole bodie of this realme, vnto the generall councell holden first at Ferrara, and after at Florence by pope Eugenius the fourth”

Henry VI 19

• liege: Nicholas (cardinal of the holie crosse) “Nicholas the cardinall of the holie crosse was sent into France, as a legat from Eugenie the fourth as then bishop of Rome, to treat a peace betwéene the Englishmen and Frenchmen.”

Henry VI 22

• with Pope Martin V (Eugene IV succeeded Martin V as pope.) “whom Eugenie the fourth succéeding”
• liege: Julian Cesarini (The pope commanded his legate to dissolve the synod and appoint a new one.) “Wherevpon as the councell the ninetéenth of Iulie the same 1431 was there begun, and his holinesse soone after aduertised how malapertlie his ghostlie children had imbusied themselues in checking at their holie fathers faults, and about reformation of his church at Rome; his sublimitie therat highlie offended (for great cause it had) commanded his legat by and by to dissolue that synod, and in his name to appoint a new at Ferrar, and so come his waie”
• with Pope Martin V (Eugene IV succeeded Martin V as pope.) “Martin the fift, in the fiftéenth yeare of his popedome, An. 1431, agréeing vpon a generall councell to be holden at Basill the same yeare, did anon after deceasse: whom Eugenie the fourth succéeding”
• rivals with Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy (Eugene remained pope while Amadeus, as Felix the Fifth, was chosen.) “And in the fift yeare of this Basilien councell that had a continuance of eleuen yeare (whereof an eight were run yer Felix was chosen, in which Eugenie remaining pope still, though of curst hart he neuer came at them)”

Henry VI 33

• with Thomas Bourchier (Eugene IV revoked his bulls previously made to Thomas Bourchier.) “Which doone, Eugenius (when he saw no other remedie) did reuoke his buls made before to Thomas Bourchier, in the yeare of Christ 1437.”

Henry VI 66

• liege: John Kemp “he was made cardinall of S. Albin, by pope Eugenie the fourth”
• with John Kemp (Pope Eugene IV made Iohn Kempe a cardinal.) “he was made cardinall of S. Albin, by pope Eugenie the fourth”

Edward IV 41

• with Walter Hunt (Walter Hunt was sent to councils held by Pope Eugene IV.) “sent from the whole bodie of this realme, vnto the generall councell holden first at Ferrara, and after at Florence by pope Eugenius the fourth”

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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.