1304–1305 conclave

The 1304–1305 papal conclave was initiated after the death of Pope Benedict XI in July 1304. It took place in Perugia, the city in which Benedict XI had died, and proved to be a protracted affair. It ran from 10 or 17 July 1304 to 5 June 1305, and ultimately elected the non-cardinal Raymond de Got as Pope Clement V. At the time of his election, de Got was the archbishop of Bordeaux and thus a subject of King Edward I of England (who had recently conquered Normandy), although he was a childhood friend of King Philip IV of France ("the Fair"). Pope Clement V's decision to relocate the papacy to France was one of the most contested issues in the conclave following his 1314 death, during which the minority of Italian cardinals were unable to engineer the return of the papacy to Rome. This immediately preceded the beginning of the Avignon Papacy.