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Location: Kazalinsk Qyzylorda Kazakhstan

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.