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Clement V
Bertrand de Got was born to a wine-making family in France, before rising to become the Archbishop of Bordeaux (no relation to the King of Beers).
His older brother had been a cardinal and a vintner, and Bertie had lived the good life as a medieval bishop—studying law, the arts, and the science of grapes, with theology almost an afterthought.
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With all these interests and a fair amount of money to his name, Bertie became good pals with French King Philip IV. Philip (known as "the Fair" for his David Lee Roth-like locks) had been making life miserable for Pope Boniface VIII, with whom the monarch had differed over the issue of whether priests should pay taxes.
(Boniface was of the opinion that rendering unto Caesar was strictly for losers.)
In the end, Philip made Boniface's life so miserable that it ended prematurely after a violent fever. His successor, Benedict XI, died after a few month
