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Papal conclave May 1342
Dates and location
5–7 May 1342 Palais des Papes,Avignon
Key officials
Dean	Pierre Desprès
Camerlengo	Gasbert de Valle
Protopriest	Imbert Dupuis
Protodeacon	Guillaume de Farges
Elected pope
Pierre Roger Name taken:Clement VI
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Thepapal conclave held from 5 to 7 May 1342 was convened after the death ofPope Benedict XII and electedCardinal Pierre Roger to succeed aspope. The fourth pope of the period of theAvignon Papacy, hetook the nameClement VI.

Pope Benedict XII died atAvignon on 25 April 1342. At the time of his death, there were nineteen cardinals in the Sacred College, of whom seventeen participated in the subsequent conclave:^[1]

Ten electors were creatures of John XXII, six ofBenedict XII and one ofClement V. Thirteen of them were French, three Italian and one Spanish.

The post of theCamerlengo of the Holy Roman Church was occupied at that time byGasbert de Valle,^[3]Archbishop of Narbonne (not a Cardinal) and nephew of Pope John XXII.

Two French Cardinals, both elevated by John XXII, did not participate in this conclave:^[1]

The conclave started on 5 May and lasted only two days. On 7 May CardinalPierre Roger, formerChancellor of the Kingdom of France, was unanimously elected Pope, "by divine inspiration alone", as reported shortly thereafter Cardinals des Farges and Ceccano.^[4] Once elected he took the name ofClement VI. On 19 May the new Pope wascrowned in the church of theDominicans in Avignon byRaymond Guillaume des Farges,protodeacon of S. Maria Nuova.^[5]

Shortly after the death of Benedict XII kingPhilip VI of France sent to Avignon hiseldest son with the task to support the candidature of Cardinal Roger, but when he arrived, the election had been already accomplished with the result expected by the king.^[4]

• Miranda, Salvador."Conclave of May 5 - 7, 1342 (Clement VI)".The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church.Florida International University.OCLC 53276621.
• G. Mollat "The Popes at Avignon 1305-1378", London 1963
• Wrigley, J.E. 1982. "The Conclave and the Electors of 1342".Archivum Historiae Pontificiae Roma,20: 51-81.

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