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[Up] [Dromo's Den] Martin V Biography MARTIN V, Pope 1417-31, Otto Colonna. He was born in Rome in 1368. He was named Cardinal in 1405 by Innocent VII, and in 1410 appointed to adjudicate the appeal of Huss, against whom he decided. By his election to the papacy at Constance the great schism (see CONSTANCE, COUNCIL OF; SCHISM, WESTERN) was finally extinguished. He presided in all the subsequent sessions of the council; and when the Fathers separated without discussing urgent questions of reform, he was finally persuaded to call another council, originally at Pavia, then, from fear of the plague, at Siena, and when it was about to meet at Basel, he designated the zealous reformer Cardinal Cesarini as its president. Martin himself, however, died just before the assembling of the council. Consult Mandell Creighton, History of the Papacy, vols. i, ii (London. 1902-04), and Ludwig Pastor, History of the Popes, vol. i (ib., 1906). The New International Encyclopaedia, Vol. XV (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920) 148-149. |