Difference between revisions of "Felix V"

<p> AMADEUS (of Savoy), [[Pope]] or Anti-pope, was born Sept. 4, 1383. He succeeded his father, Amadeus VII, in the earldom of Savoy, which the emperor [[Sigismund]] raised into a duchy. In his eighteenth year he was married to Maria of Burgundy, and in those times of bloody excess was accounted a wise and just prince. He participated through an envoy in the [[Council]] of Constance, and in 1422 shared in the crusade against the Hussites. His naturally strong religious tendencies having been strengthened by his wife's death, he built a hermitage at Ripaille, on Lake Leman, in 1434, and retired to it with the intention of spending the rest of his days in retirement. After the councils of [[Pisa]] and [[Constance]] had deposed Eigenius IV, another was assembled at Basle, and Amadeus was elected pope. He accepted the nomination, adopted the title of [[Felix]] V and as such entered Rome June 24, 1440. [[Finally]] he made terms with [[Nicolas]] V, [[Eugenius]] IV's successor, and, having thus ended the schism, Felix V retired to his hermitage at Ripaille, with the rank of cardinal-legate and permanent vicar general of the papal see in Savoy, Basle, Strasburg, etc. He died at [[Geneva]] January 7, 1451. See Guichenon, Histoire generale de lairoy. maisbn de Savoye' (1660); AEn. Sylvii Commentar. de gestis Concil. (Basle. 1577). (See [[Council Of Basle]]). </p>