Martin V

Martin V
(Oddone Colonna) 1368-1431, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1417-31.

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orig. Oddo Colonna

born 1368, Genazzano, Papal States
died Feb. 20, 1431, Rome

Pope (1417–31).

His election at the Council of Constance marked the end of the Western Schism. He condemned conciliar theory (see Conciliar movement) and any appeals of papal judgment on matters of faith. Martin rejected French efforts to persuade him to live at Avignon (see Avignon papacy). Instead he returned to Rome (1420), where he helped to rebuild the ruined city. He also tried to recover control of the Papal States. He mediated in the Hundred Years' War and organized crusades against the Hussites, and he asserted the rights of the church against the crown.

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pope
original name  Oddo, or Oddone, Colonna  
born 1368, Genazzano, Papal States [Italy]
died Feb. 20, 1431, Rome
 pope from 1417 to 1431.

      A cardinal subdeacon who had helped organize the Council of Pisa in 1409, he was unanimously elected pope on Nov. 11, 1417, in a conclave held during the Council of Constance (1414–18), which had been called to end the Great Schism (Western Schism) (1378–1417), a split in the Western church caused by multiple claimants to the papacy.

      As pope, Martin faced enormous difficulties, for he had to restore the Western church, the papacy, and the Papal States. The Council of Constance accepted his proposal (January 1418) that ecclesiastics rule lands and cities belonging to the church, but he found it necessary to establish himself in these places diplomatically rather than forcibly. Immediately after the Council of Constance, he condemned the widely held “conciliar theory” which would make the pope subject to a council, and he forbade any appeal from papal judgment on matters of faith. After the council adopted seven church reform decrees, leaving their execution to Martin, he concluded concordats on other points with the principal countries involved, chiefly methods of taxation and some modifications in favour of national demands for the reform of abuses in the papacy's central bureaucracy.

      Although the French offered him Avignon for the papal residence, where it had been situated from 1309 to 1377, Martin chose Rome. He remained a year in Florence, however, for Rome—which he finally entered in 1420—was in ruins. Martin restored some of its churches and fortifications and tried to recover control of the Papal States. His chief difficulty was with the ambitious Italian soldier Braccio da Montone, whom in 1420 he had made vicar of the papal territories of Perugia and Umbria. Not content, Braccio sought further dominion in southern Italy but was defeated in the Battle of Aquila (June 2, 1424). Thereafter, Martin was able to make headway in Italy. By obtaining the grant of fiefs for his influential family in southern Italy, he increased the Colonnas' power and enriched them with vast estates in papal territory.

      In non-Italian affairs he advanced papal interests and aimed to retrieve the authority of the Curia in the church as a whole. He worked to mediate the Hundred Years' War between France and England and to organize crusades against the Hussites, followers of the Bohemian religious reformer Jan Hus. Against the English government he fully asserted his determination to obliterate the Statute of Provisors of 1390, which had outlawed the papacy's conferring of an office or benefice. In the Spanish kingdoms he similarly emphasized the rights of the church against the crown.

      Although he dreaded councils for fear that they would revive the conciliar theory, Martin called the Council of Pavia in 1423. Yet he soon strove to abort the council, which, because of a plague, moved to Siena. He refused to attend in person and in 1424 manipulated its dissolution. In short, he asserted papal supremacy in all matters ecclesiastical.

      Martin neglected the opportunity offered by councils for church reform, toward which his own efforts were halfhearted and ineffective. He died shortly after calling the Council of Basel in 1431.

Additional Reading
Peter Partner, The Papal State Under Martin V (1958).

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