8th century British missionary, also known as Winfred. Commissioned by Pope Gregory II in 729 to evangelize Germany. Later became Archbishop of Mainz.

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A Pope (1294-1303) who declared, on February 22, 1300 a Jubilee — a Holy Year — to celebrate the new centenary of Christ's birth granting pardon for all the sins of those who reverently visited the churches of St. Peter and St. Paul during the Holy Year. He had a noted flair for pomp and circumstance. In 1296 Boniface had issued a "Clericis laicos," a document threatening excommunication for any lay ruler who taxed the clergy and any churchman who paid those taxes without papal consent. Boniface eventually backed down due to the resistance of Kings Edward and Phillip. He later earned even greater opposition from the king of France when he issued the "Unam Sanctum," a decree stating that all men were ultimately subject to the Roman pontiff. This adversarial relationship eventually led to his death at 86 when he was severely humiliated by French troops in his own hometown.

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In the fourteenth Century, Edward ruled in England while Philip the Fair ruled in France. Both were strong and self-assured, and at odds with each other over lands in France still under English control. To finance their costly campaigns, Edward and Philip hit upon the same solution: tax the clergy within their realms. When Pope Boniface in 1296 threatened excommunication for any lay ruler who taxed the clergy and any churchman who paid those taxes without papal consent Edward decreed that if the clergy did not pay, they would be stripped of all legal protection, and their extensive properties would be seized by the king's sheriffs. Boniface backed down.

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(741-768)

The son of Charles Martel and his successor. He thought the time had come to legalize the regal power exercised by the "mayors of the palace". He turned to the Pope for a ruling stipulating that whoever had the actual power should be the legal ruler. He got what he wanted. In 751 Boniface, the great English missionary among the Germans crowned Pepin the king of the Franks. Three years later the Pope himself crossed the Alps and personally anointed Pepin as the Chosen of the Lord.

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The king of France during the turn of the 14th century. In 1296, Pope Boniface VIII issued a Clericis Laicos threatening excommunication for any lay ruler who taxed the clergy and any churchman who paid those taxes without papal consent. But Philip, with King Edward of England, resisted and he put an embargo on the export of all gold, silver, and jewels from his domains, depriving the papal treasury of a major source of revenue from church collections in France. Boniface eventually backed down. The rivalry between Philip and Boniface waged on until Philip's troops eventually so shamed Boniface that he died.

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