Avignon (in Avignon French), city of the south of France that during several years was the seat of the Popes of the catholic Church. It is located in the left margin of the Rhone river, in the department of Vaucluse, to about 650 km to the Southeastern of Paris and 80 km to the northwest of Marseilles.
One became the residence of the Popes in 1309, when the city was under the government of the kings of Sicily pertaining to the House of Anjou. In 1348, the Merciful Pope I SAW it bought queen Juana I of Sicily and remained like papal property until 1791 when it was incorporated to the rest of France during the French Revolution.
Next it appears the list of the seven Popes that resided here from 1309 to 1377. This period in which the Popes established its residence in Aviñón is known him like the Captivity of the Papado. Once finished this one, the Great Schism of the West began in 1378 that was not solved until 1417.