Most Evil Popes in History | Part 2 | Human Voiced, No Ads

00:00:00 Introduction and Welcome 00:00:59 Pope John VIII 872 882 The First Pope to Be Murdered 00:09:33 Pope Sergius III 904 911 The Patriarch of the Pornocracy 00:17:49 Pope Innocent III 1198 1216 The Crusade Against Christians 00:28:14 Pope Gregory IX 1227 1241 The Man Who Built the Inquisition 00:34:06 Pope John XXII 1316 1334 The Avignon Pope Who Declared Heaven a Heresy 00:43:38 Antipope John XXIII 1410 1415 The Pirate Who Became Pope 00:49:57 The Victims Who Actually Paid the Price Join this channel to get access to perks:    / @asmr_historian   Support the channel on Patreon:   / asmrhistorian   Merch: https://histmerch.shop/ Sources and Further Reading Annals of Fulda [Annales Fuldenses]. 9th century. Trans. Timothy Reuter, 1992. (Primary source for Pope John VIII's murder.) Liutprand of Cremona (c. 958–962). Antapodosis [Retribution]. Trans. Paolo Squatriti, 2007. (Primary source for Sergius III and the Pornocracy.) Pierre des Vaux-de-Cernay (c. 1213). Historia Albigensis. Trans. W.A. Sibly and M.D. Sibly, 1998. (Contemporary chronicle of the Albigensian Crusade; source for the Béziers massacre.) Wakefield, Walter L. Heresy, Crusade and Inquisition in Southern France 1100–1250 (1974). Given, James B. Inquisition and Medieval Society: Power, Discipline, and Resistance in Languedoc (1997). Mollat, Guillaume. The Popes at Avignon 1305–1378. Trans. Janet Love (1963). Tierney, Brian. Origins of Papal Infallibility 1150–1350 (1988). Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 7 (1788). Lerner, Robert E. The Heresy of the Free Spirit in the Later Middle Ages (1972). Morris, Colin. The Papal Monarchy: The Western Church from 1050 to 1250 (1989). Information sourced from Wiki, Gutenburg, JSTOR, primary and secondary sources. All information is congruent with archaeological and history evidence at the time of recording.