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Pontificate (Pisan obedience) : May 17, 1410 to May 29, 1415. Born Baldassare Cossa into an impoverished family of Neapolitan aristocrats (ca.

1370), he died in Florence on either June 23, 1419 or (see Esch) on December 27. There are few reliable facts concerning Cossa's early life, though there is a tradition that he left a military career in favor of church service.

He studied canon law at Bologna and entered the papal curia of Boniface IX (1389–1404).

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Cossa became archdeacon of Bologna in 1396, and in 1402 Boniface named him cardinal deacon of St. Eustachio and appointed him legate to Bologna and Romagna. From 1403 to 1408 he lived in Bologna, where his administrative and financial abilities brought that region of Italy back under the control of the Papal States.

During the Great schism, Cossa was one of the cardinals who broke with gregory xii (1406–15) in May 1408, when the latter showed that he had no intention of ending the Schism (Gregory