Re: Girl Genius (GG) 7 March 2008

James Nicoll wrote:
> Now, what was the name of the elderly Pope who was put in
> as a care-taker for the presumably short time that he had left, who
> then lived for years and years and years after his selection?

Could be Jacques Duèze; the story (as told by Maurice Druon in "Les Rois 
Maudits") is that in 1316 the Count of Poitiers's soldiers had surrounded 
the Lyon monastery where the conclave was gathered, holding it captive
until 
a pope was elected. Duèze faked illness, and the cardinals, believing him
on 
his deathbed chose him. He lived 18 more years, and was pope until 1334 
under the name of Jean XXII.
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Regards,

Cosmin Corbea