Boniface, who despite his stoicism has clearly…

Boniface, who despite his stoicism has clearly been shaken by the incident at Agnani, develops a violent fever and dies on October 11, 1303.

In A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century, Barbara Tuchman states that his close advisors later maintained that he died of a "profound chagrin".

Boniface is buried in St. Peter's Basilica in a grandiose tomb that he had designed himself.

(Allegedly, when the tomb cracked open three centuries after his death, on October 9, 1605, his body was revealed to be perfectly incorrupt.)