All Vatican elections

1362 Conclave

elected Urban V

22 September – 28 October 1362 · Conclave law and the Great Schism · Palais des Papes, Avignon

Twenty cardinals entered the conclave on 22 September, divided roughly into the factions of the French and Gascon cardinals (the latter being subjects of the king of England, in his capacity as duke of Aquitaine). Eleven or twelve of the twenty cardinals were Limousin, including three cardinal-nephews of Innocent VI and six nephews of Pope Clement VI.

Elected pope

Urban V

Guillaume de Grimoard

Succeeded

Duration

37 days

Cardinal electors

locked in under conclave rules

Key officials

DeanHélie de Talleyrand

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.