Boniface's

Boniface's defeat and humiliation by the national states.

1294-1303 2001

A learned Dominican from a poor family, he had no connection with the quarreling Colonna family, and he had been absent from Rome during most of Boniface's disputes with Philip the Fair.

1294-1303 2001

Boniface's successor, Benedict XI (1303–4), desperate to gain French friendship, dismissed all blame for the attack at Anagni, restored privileges revoked by Boniface VIII, and renewed the royal right to tax the clergy.

1302, June 2001

To prevent publication of the papal letter, Guillaume de Nogaret, Philip's influential councillor, and Sciarra Colonna, one of Boniface's bitterest enemies, forced their way into the Gaetani palace (Sept. 7, 1303) at Anagni (central Italy) and arrested Boniface.

1302, June 2001

Henry arrested Beatrice and her daughter Matilda, Boniface's heiress; Godfrey fled; Matilda remained all her life a powerful ally of the papacy and kept middle Italy loyal to the popes.

1055-57 2001

A triumphant, hard expression came over Boniface's visage.

The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette William Douw Lighthall

Boniface's ribs, 'Didst not mark the exact resemblance' -- here he delineated a contour with swift movement of finger -- ''twixt Red Eric and our Prior?'

Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease

It seems that Boniface's last act as Archbishop of Mainz was the repudiation of the claim of the

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

Gregory III received him graciously and was rejoiced at the result of Boniface's labour, but would not allow him to resign.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

A neighbouring bishop (probably of Cologne) also gave trouble, by laying claim to a part of the district under Boniface's jurisdiction and treating his authority as an intrusion, thereby indirectly strengthening the party of the heretics.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913