Antipope Clement VIII

Clement VIII\nOne of the antipopes of Avignon, reigning 10 January 1423 to 26 July 1429.\nBorn 1369-70, as Gil Sanchez Muñoz y Carbón, died 28 December 1446. A friend and advisor of the future antipope Benedict XIII, and member of the Avignon Curia. In 1396 he was an envoy to the Bishop of Valencia to get Spanish support. Benedict had appointed four cardinals, and on his death, three of them, on 10 June 1423, elected Sanchez Muñoz Pope. The fourth, Jean Carrier, absent at the time, declared the election invalid, was excommunicated by Clement, and elected his own antipope in turn, who took the name Benedict XIV.\nClement VIII's fate was bound up with the ambitions of Alfonso V of Aragon's ambitions. Alfonso wished to negotiate for Naples, and so gave Clement support: his queen, and the Aragonese bishops supported Martin. When Alfonso had achieved his goal, he sent a delegation (headed by Alfonso de Borgia, the future Callixtus III), to persuade Clement to recognise Martin. Clement's abdication on 26 July was confirmed mid August, and Martin granted Sanchez Muñoz a bishopric.