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Gratian's Decretum - 1140.
1234 - Gregory IX The Extravagants (Extravagant,
because extra vagantes, wandering outside the
Decretum of Gratian) - consists of 1971 items
divided into 5 books
1) Sources of Law 2) Procedure in the Spiritual courts
3) The rights + duties of the clergy + religious communities
4) Marriage 5) Moral offences + their Rx + punishment,
with an appendiz on legal rules + aphorisms.
1298 .. Boniface VIII - a further collection of the decretals
issued after the reign of Gregory IX - divided into 5 books
with the same titles as those in the Extravagants -
known as the Sext - the 6th book after the 5 of
Pope Gregory's collection.
1314/7 - Pontificate (1305-1314) - Clement V published the Clementine Constitutions
with the same arrangement into 5 books.
Extravagants of John XXII containing 20 constitutions
of the Pope.
Extravagants Communes - a series of 70 decretals
of various Popes between 1294 + 1484.
- all these were published as the Corpus Juris Cononici
by Jean Chapius in 1503.

Bonifacius VIII (reigned 1294-1303) (c. 1235-1303) was surely the only Pope to
be besieged in the Tower of London. WIth Cardinal Otto boni
who was to aid Henry III of England against the bishops of
the baronial party, he was trapped there by the rebellious
earl of Gloucester, but rescued by Edward I in 1267.
Johannes Andreae - Juris consult at Padova, Pisa + Bologna
born at Mingello about 1275, died at Bologna in 1348.
-Boniface VIII was the most famous of all popes bearing this
name, Dante described him as the "Prince of the
Pharisees."