List of People Excommunicated By The Roman Catholic Church - 16th Century

16th Century

  • Pietro Colonna in 1501 by Pope Alexander VI
  • James IV of Scotland in 1513 for breaking the Treaty of Perpetual Peace with England.
  • Martin Luther in 1520 by Pope Leo X.
  • Henry VIII of England in 1533, and finally on 17 December 1538 by Pope Paul III.
  • Thomas Cranmer
  • Elizabeth I of England in 1570 by the papal bull Regnans in Excelsis.
  • Thomas Erastus
  • Henry IV of France and Navarre, who famously retaliated by "excommunicating" the Pope.
  • Giovanni Bentivoglio, leader of Bologna, in 1506 by Julius II, while the pope was at war with him and leading an army to take Bologna.
  • Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, by Julius II in 1510.

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