John XXII. was crushed by the falling in of the vault of a pavilion, and thus departed this life.
Benedict VI.,[67] was shut up in the Castle Angelo, by Cynthius, a citizen of Rome, and there strangled by him, on account of his great villainy.
Benedict IX. was killed by poison, which had been put into a fig by an abbess, who was considered a devout, spiritual daughter.
The body of Boniface VII., who had died a sudden death, was dragged along the street, with his feet tied to a rope, and ignominiously buried in the common grave.
Lucius II., about to storm the capitol, whither the senators had fled, was so seriously pelted with stones, that he died soon afterwards.
When Innocentius IV. had unjustly sentenced to death Robert of Lincoln, because he had censured, with the mouth as well as with the pen, the nefarious deeds of the popes, and Robert therefore appealed to Christ, the Supreme Judge, the pope was found dead in his bed the following day.[68]
Nicholas III. died very unexpectedly of apoplexy (called the stroke of God).
Paul II., having supped very merrily, died soon after, likewise of apoplexy.
Leo X. died while laughing and frolicking at his cups.
Clemens VIII., having conspired with Franciscus, king of France, against the Emperor Charles V., was afterwards apprehended by the emperor’s captains, derided above measure, ultimately reinstated in the papal chair, but finally, in the year 1534, suffocated, together with several cardinals, with the smoke of torches. From Onpar. Recht. Also, from various other accepted authors who have previously been referred to.[69]