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of July 22 1376 is not an error but a deliberate falsification of the legend in 1605 in order to make it apply to a totally different event. This was the death of Simon Langham, Archbishop of Canterbury AND Cardinal of Avignon.He "drove the secular clergy from their college of Canterbury Hall, Oxford, and filled their places with monks". "Pied" refers to his bicoloured dress, scarlet and purple, of these two warring appointments. It perhaps also signifies 'tainted' or 'spotted'. His death marked the end of the facetiously named 'Babylonian Captivity', or 70 year exile of the Papacy to France, after which his 'children', the 13 cardin |
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