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The Anagni outrage — In 1303, the French king’s envoys seized the pope at Anagni
A French royal jurist and an Italian troop stormed the town where the pope was staying, the day before a bull excommunicating their king was to appear. The pontiff was seized, insulted, then freed by the townspeople; he died soon after, and the papacy soon settled at Avignon. (Editorial synthesis)
The Anagni outrage took place in Anagni. (source: Larousse)
The Anagni outrage ended in the pope rescued by the town’s leaders, and dead soon after. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
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