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After Pope Gregory XI moves the papacy back to Rome in 1377, there begins a period known as the Great Western Schism (1378-1417), during which cardinals in Rome and Avignon each elect their own pope.
Edward III of England dies and is succeeded by his grandson, ten-year-old Richard II, son of Edward the Black Prince. Until Richard comes of age in 1389, England is ruled by a council headed by John of Gaunt.
After some twenty years of disputes between England and the papacy, John Wycliffe of Oxford begins a systematic attack on the doctrines of the Latin Christian Church. Though his actions do not lead to schism in the Church, he is considered a precursor of the Protestant Reformation.
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