Papal conclave December 1370
Dates and location
Palais des Papes,Avignon
Key officials
Dean	Guy de Boulogne
Camerlengo	Arnaud Aubert
Protodeacon	Pierre Roger de Beaufort
Elected pope
Pierre Roger de Beaufort Name taken:Gregory XI
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In thepapal conclave held on 29 and 30 December 1370, after the death ofPope Urban V, CardinalPierre Roger de Beaufort was electedpope under the nameGregory XI. He thus became seventh and the last pope of the period ofAvignon Papacy.

Urban V died on December 20, 1370, atAvignon. He was the first pope who resided inRome since 1304, although only for a short time (1367 until the beginning of 1370, when he returned to Avignon). At the time of his death, there were 20 livingcardinals. Eighteen of them participated in the conclave:^[1]

Nine electors were created by Pope Urban V, five by Clement VI and four by Innocent VI.

Post of theCamerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, the most important duringsede vacante, was occupied byArnaud Aubert,^[3]archbishop of Auch and nephew of Pope Innocent VI (but not a Cardinal).

Two Cardinals, both created by Urban V, did not participate in this conclave, because they were in Italy:^[1]

Eighteen cardinals present in Avignon entered the conclave on December 29. In the first ballot on the next day in the morning CardinalPierre Roger de Beaufort, nephew ofClement VI, protodeacon of the Sacred College, was unanimously elected Pope.^[4] He initially opposed his election but eventually accepted and took the name ofGregory XI. On January 2, 1371, he was ordained to thepriesthood, and on January 3 he was consecratedbishop of Rome by thedean of the College of CardinalsGuy de Boulogne, and crowned by the new protodeacon Rinaldo Orsini in the cathedralNotre Dame des Doms in Avignon.^[5]

• Salvador Miranda: list of participants of the papal conclave of 1370
• Pope Gregory XI
• G. Mollat,The Popes at Avignon 1305-1378, London 1963

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