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201st Roman Pontiff
Gregory XI
GREGORIVS Undecimus
Pierre Roger de Beaufort
201st Successor of St Peter · 1370–1378 · France · b. Maumont, Limousin, Kingdom of France
1370
Elected
1378
Reign ended
8 years
Length
14th
Century
The Life
Subject of the Kingdom of France. Pope at Avignon; returned the seat of the papacy to Rome (1377). Last French pope.
Portrait: Virgil Master and his atelier / Wikimedia Commons