3 May 1410 A.D. Alexander V (Pietro Philarghi) Dies—Avignon Chaos & Papacy; One of Many Antipopes to Gregory XII & Others
3 May 1410 A.D. Alexander V (Pietro Philarghi) Dies—Avignon Chaos & Papacy; One of Many Antipopes to Gregory XII & Others; Co-Antipopes were Pedro de Luna ("Benedict XIII") and Baldassare Cossa ("John XXIII") Peterson, John Bertram. "Alexander V." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01288a.htm . Accessed 20 Sept 2014. Alexander V Pietro Philarghi, born c. 1339, on the island of Crete (Candia), whence his appellation, Peter of Candia; elected 26 June, 1409; died at Bologna, 3 May, 1410. A homeless beggar-boy in a Cretan city, knowing neither parents nor relations, he became the protégé of a discerning Capuchin friar , from whom he received an elementary education and under whose guidance he became a Franciscan in a Cretan ...