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Control over the king. >> but king phillip has an agenda, and he does not intend to let one insubordinate pope stand in his way. ♪ have this recurring dream. i'm 85 years old in a job where i have to wear a giant hot dog suit. what? where's that coming from? i don't know. i started my 401k early, i diversified... i'm not a big spender. sounds like you're doing a lot. but i still feel like i'm not gonna have enough for retirement. like there's something else i should be doing. with the right conversation, you might find you're doing okay. so, no hot dog suit? not unless you want to. no. sched...

Disease devastated europe. >> pretty of the entire population was wiped out. >> in the wake of the plague, the papacy is forced to re-evaluate its role in europe and face dire conditions in the city it abandoned. >> with the absence of the papacy from rome, the upkeep of the city began to fail. a great deal of the upkeep of rome came out of the pope's coffers. now this was all going to france. law and order became very, very shaky. you have a rise in pickpockets and muggings because there is no king in rome, there's no interior in rome, and now there is no pope in rome. >> the romans learned, ...

Pope. philip actually asks them to come to france to crown him pope. >> the popes, of course, had been appointed in rome from the time of st. peter. >> king philip of france has a very powerful hold on pope clement v. this is a weak man and he is intimidated by philip. >> clement is notorious. he just did whatever he was asked. >> clement 5 outright promised philip a flatout portion of the church tithe. it went straight into the royal coffers. he also signed off on the expulsion of jews as a danger to the church, in knowledge that the wealth was going to go to philip. that's very blatant. >> b...

1294, king philip iv of france is determined to reassert his power over the papacy. but the new hope, boniface iv refuses to give in to the greed even monarch. >> philip iv comes to a time when warfare is brought by purchasing armies. he needs more money. >> the church is very wealthy. >> so when bon bon dies, king philip ensures that a pope who will give him what he wants is elected. >> expressed very clearly to the college of cardinals that he preferred this particular french candidate. it wasn't an easy election, but ultimately the french side was strong enough to win. >> a french prelate w...

Italy is basically up for grabs. the normans grab part of it. the franks grab part of it. the germans grab part of it. italy is always contested. so if you're going to control any major part of italy, you have to get the pope on your side. >> you want to raise an army, you need the pope's blessing. >> because of the volatile nature of medieval european politics, the papacy becomes dependent on the surrounding monarchies for stability and vice versa. >> the pope didn't have an army. he didn't have anything other than moral persuasion on his side, and so what we see the early popes doing are mak...