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Gentile Portino da Montefiore

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Italian papal legate

Religious FiguresLived 1240 to 1312 · aged 72
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Gentile Portino da Montefiore was an Italian Franciscan friar and prelate, who was created Cardinal-Priest of Santi Silvestro e Martino ai Monti by Pope Boniface VIII in 1300. He served as Major Penitentiary of the Roman Curia from 1302 to 1305.

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Papal legate Gentile is arriving to Hungary, as depicted in the Illuminated ChroniclePapal legate Gentile is arriving to Hungary, as depicted in the Illuminated ChronicleGentile's letter to bishop-elect Benedict in 1310, the earliest surviving document written on paper in HungaryGentile's letter to bishop-elect Benedict in 1310, the earliest surviving document written on paper in Hungary

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Gentile Portino da Montefiore was an Italian Franciscan friar and prelate, who was created Cardinal-Priest of Santi Silvestro e Martino ai Monti by Pope Boniface VIII in 1300. He served as Major Penitentiary of the Roman Curia from 1302 to 1305. Pope Clement V sent him to Hungary as a papal legate in 1308, with the primary task of assuring the Angevins the Hungarian throne. Gentile built the San Martino Chapel in the Lower Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi, dedicated to Saint Martin of Tours. He was buried in the neighboring Chapel of St. Louis.

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Lived 1240 to 1312 · aged 72
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