All Vatican elections

1370 Conclave

elected Gregory XI

29–30 December 1370 · Conclave law and the Great Schism · Palais des Papes, Avignon

Urban V died on 20 December 1370, at Avignon. He was the first pope who resided in Rome since 1304, although only for a short time (1367 until the beginning of 1370, when he returned to Avignon).

Elected pope

Gregory XI

Pierre de Beaufort

Succeeded

Duration

2 days

Cardinal electors

locked in under conclave rules

Key officials

DeanGuy de Boulogne
CamerlengoArnaud Aubert

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.