210, Lot: 332. Estimate $150. Sold for $172. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Papal Medals. Gregory XI (Pierre Roger de Beaufort). 1370-1378. Æ Medal (39mm, 26.27 g, 12h). GREGORIVS · XI · PONT · MAX, bust left, wearing camauro, mozzetta, and pallium / ET · REVERSA · EST · IN · LOCVM · SVVM, four cardinals carrying altar left. Lincoln -. EF.

From the Luparello Collection.

Born in Rosiers-d’Égletons, Gregory XI was the last of the French Popes. He achieved his goal of restoring his papal seat in Rome and formally condemned the nineteen propositions of John Wycliffe along with the thirteen articles of the Sachenspiegel. Upon his death, a Roman mob pressured the College of Cardinals to elect an Italian Pope, which they did in Urban VI, only to find themselves at odds with him and to return to Avignon to elect a new French Pope (Antipope Clement VII), ultimately beginning the Western Schism.