Nicholas V

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Italian pope from 1447 to 1455 who founded the Vatican library (1397-1455)

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In 1330, Antipope Nicholas V submitted, followed later by the ex-general Michael, and finally, just before his death, by Ockham. Source: Internet

As per tradition, they spent a night outside the walls of Rome before entering the sitting on 9 March, where Frederick and Pope Nicholas V exchanged friendly greetings. Source: Internet

In 1452, Pope Nicholas V issued the papal bull Dum Diversas that granted Afonso V the right to reduce "Saracens, pagans and any other unbelievers" to hereditary slavery. Source: Internet

In November 1463, Pope Pius II tried to organize the crusade against the Ottomans, similar to what Pope Nicholas V and Pope Calixtus III had tried to do before him. Source: Internet

This was reaffirmed and extended in the Romanus Pontifex bull of 1455 (also by Nicholas V). Source: Internet

It was probably only because they could not agree on an Italian successor to Nicholas V that the elderly Callistus had been elected; one who, in all probability, would not live long. Source: Internet

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