January 1276 Conclave

elected Innocent V

21–22 January 1276 · Conclave law and the Great Schism · San Domenico's Basilica, Arezzo

A conclave was held from 21 to 22 January 1276 to elect the successor of Pope Gregory X, who succumbed to illness on the return from the Second Ecumenical Council of Lyon. During the two day conclave, the Dominican friar and cardinal Peter of Tarentaise, bishop of Ostia, was elected pope and took the name Innocent V.

Elected pope

Innocent V

Pierre de Tarentaise

Succeeded

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Duration

2 days

1 ballot

Cardinal electors

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locked in under conclave rules

Ballot-by-ballot tallies are destroyed by design — the paper is burned in the stove whose smoke announces the result — so this entry records what the Church documents: the dates, the electors, the number of ballots where known, and the man who walked out onto the balcony.