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“Besides this,” he writes, “It is related that there
were sometimes four, sometimes three, and sometimes
two popes at the same time.”

Victor, Alexander III., Calixtus III., and Paschalis,
possessed together the papal authority, at the
time of the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa; and also
Benedict VIII., Sylvester II., and Gregory V. were
popes together, till finally, Henry III. deposed
them.

Likewise Gregory XII., Benedict XIII., and
Alexander V. arrogated, by excommunications, the
papal authority.[60](/en/stories/mm-footnotes/part-6/#Footnote_60)

Further, how Stephen III. and Constantine,
Sergius III. and Christophorus, Urbanus V. and
Clemens VII., Eugene IV. and Clemens VIII.,
and many other popes, whom to mention it would
take too long, strove and contended with each
other for the triple crown, their own historians
have sufficiently elucidated. See in the 9th Book of
the Chronicle for the year 891. page 315. col 2.
from the tract, Den Onpartijdigen Rechter.



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