1351 Rienzi delivered to the custody of the pope by Charles IV of Germany.
1352 Etienne d’Albert, Innocent VI.
1354 Cardinal Albornoz restores papal power in Rome. Rienzi made senator. He rules badly, and is killed.
1356 The Golden Bull terminates the long strife between papacy and empire.
1362 Guillaume de Grimoard, Urban V. Most of the pope’s enemies have been quieted, but the Visconti still remain in open hostility. The pope desires to return to Rome, since the papal states are reduced to obedience.
1367 Urban removes to Rome. Death of Albornoz.
1370 Urban returns to Avignon and dies. Pierre Roger de Beaufort, Gregory XI. England and France reject his offers of mediation with contempt. Italy, after the death of Albornoz, attempts to free herself from the pope. The Visconti are all-powerful in the north. The whole south revolts. The Free Companies ravage the country. Sir John Hawkwood serves now the Guelfs and now the Ghibellines.
1376 Mission of St. Catherine of Siena to urge the pope to return to Rome.
1377 Arrival of Gregory at Rome.
1378 Death of Gregory.