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Oddone Colonna was elected pope on 11 November 1417 at the Council of Constance after the council had deposed two rival papal claimants and accepted the third's voluntary abdication. He took the regnal name Martin V. His election ended the Western Schism that had divided Catholic Europe for thirty-nine years.
Read the story →The Council of Pisa met from March to August 1409 to resolve the thirty-year-old Western Schism. It deposed both the Roman and the Avignon claimants and elected a new pope, Alexander V. Neither of the previous popes accepted the deposition. The result was three simultaneous popes instead of two.
Read the story →The Great Western Schism (1378–1417) followed directly from the seventy-year Avignon papacy. Rival lines of popes at Rome and Avignon (and later at Pisa) excommunicated each other and divided the Catholic Christian world along approximately Anglo-French political lines for a generation.
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