Pope Boniface IX, the second Roman Pope …
Years: 1396 - 1396
April
Pope Boniface IX, the second Roman Pope of the Western Schism, speaking for a Western European populace terrified by Turkish conquest in the Balkans and their repeated sieges of Constantinople, proclaims the crusade sought by Sigismund, King of Hungary, Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia: it is to be the last large-scale crusade.
Locations
People
Groups
- Slavonia region
- Papal States (Republic of St. Peter)
- Dalmatia region
- Croatia, Kingdom of
- Hungary, Kingdom of
- Roman Empire, Eastern: Palaiologan dynasty
- Ottoman Empire
Topics
- Ostsiedlung (German: Settlement in the East), a.k.a. German eastward expansion
- Byzantine-Ottoman Turk War of 1359-99
- Western Schism or Papal Schism (also known as the Great Schism of Western Christianity)
- Nicopolis, Battle of
