Editing Pope Boniface IX (section)

{{Short description|Head of the Catholic Church from 1389 to 1404}}
{{Infobox Christian leader
| type = Pope
| honorific-prefix =  [[List of popes|Pope]]
| name = Boniface IX
| image =Cosmati, bonifacio IX inginocchiato, 1390-1410 ca (cropped).jpg
| caption = Bust {{circa|1400}}
| title = [[Bishop of Rome]]
| birth_name = Pietro Cybo Tomacelli
| church = [[Catholic Church]]
| term_start = 2 November 1389
| term_end = 1 October 1404
| predecessor = [[Urban VI]]
| successor = [[Innocent VII]]
| opposed = Avignon claimants:
{{plainlist|style=margin-top:0.5em|
*[[Antipope Clement VII|Clement VII]]
*[[Antipope Benedict XIII|Benedict XIII]]}}
| ordination = 
| ordinated_by = 
| consecration = 9 November 1389
| consecrated_by = [[Francesco Moricotti Prignani]]
| cardinal = 21 December 1381
| created_cardinal_by = [[Urban VI]]
| birth_date = c. 1350
| birth_place = [[Naples]], [[Kingdom of Naples]]
| death_date = 	1 October 1404 (aged 53–54)
| death_place = [[Rome]], [[Papal States]]
| previous_post = {{Indented plainlist|
* [[San Giorgio in Velabro|Cardinal-Deacon of San Giorgio in Velabro]] (1381–1385)
* [[Basilica di Sant'Anastasia al Palatino|Cardinal-Priest of Santa Anastasia]] (1385–1389)
* [[Basilica of Saint John Lateran|Archpriest of the Lateran Basilica]] (1388–1389)
}}
| coat_of_arms = C o a Bonifacio IX.svg
| other = Boniface
}}
{{Infobox popestyles
|image            = File: C o a Bonifacio IX.svg
|dipstyle         = [[His Holiness]]
|offstyle         = Your Holiness
|relstyle         = Holy Father
|deathstyle       = None
}}

'''Pope Boniface IX''' ({{langx|la|Bonifatius IX}}; {{langx|it|Bonifacio IX}}; c. 1350 – 1 October 1404, born '''Pietro Tomacelli'''<ref>{{cite web| url = https://w2.vatican.va/content/vatican/en/holy-father/bonifacio-ix.html| title = Vatican}}</ref>) was head of the [[Catholic Church]] from 2 November 1389 to his death, in October 1404. He was the second Roman [[pope]] during the [[Western Schism]].<ref name="McBrien249">Richard P. McBrien, ''Lives of the Popes'', (HarperCollins, 2000), 249.</ref> In this time, the Avignon claimants, [[antipope Clement VII|Clement VII]] and [[Antipope Benedict XIII|Benedict XIII]], maintained the [[Roman Curia]] in [[Avignon]], under the protection of the French monarchy. He is the last pope to date to take on the [[Papal name|pontifical]] name "Boniface".