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was held from 21 to 22 January 1276 to elect the successor of Pope Gregory X, who succumbed to illness on the return from the Second Ecumenical Council of Lyon. During the two day conclave, the Dominican friar and

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Peter of Tarentaise, bishop of Ostia, was elected

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and took the name Innocent V. It was the first conclave held under the rules of constitution '' Ubi periculum'', issued by Pope Gregory X in 1274, which established papal conclaves. According to ''Ubi periculum'' cardinals were to be secluded in a closed area; they were not even accorded separate rooms. No cardinal was allowed to be attended by more than one servant unless ill. Food was to be supplied through a window; after three days of the meeting, the cardinals were to receive only one dish a day; after five days, they were to receive just bread and water. During the conclave, no cardinal was to receive any ecclesiastical revenue. These provisions were regularly disregarded, at the discretion of the cardinals, particularly the requirement of being incommunicado. Although several times before papal elections were held in the circumstances similar to those described by ''Ubi periculum'',For example, during Papal election, 1241 cardinals had been enclosed by Senator Matteo Rosso Orsini, who gradually reduced food supplies for them. for the first time such situation was formally required by a papal Constitution. For this reason, the conclave of January 1276 can be considered the first conclave in history in the strictly legal sense of this word.

List of participants

Pope Gregory X died on January 10, 1276, at

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. At the time of his death there were probably 15 cardinals in the Sacred College, but only 13 of them participated in the subsequent conclave. Seven of them were created by Urban IV, four by Gregory X and one by

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Absentee cardinals

Two cardinals were absent, including one created by Urban IV and one created by Innocent IV:

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On January 20, 10 days after the death of Gregory X, 15 cardinals assembled in the episcopal palace in

. In the first scrutiny on the following day they unanimously elected French Cardinal Pierre de Tarentaise,

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, who took the name of Innocent V. He was the first Dominican pope.

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Vatican History: Konklave 1276 (Innozenz V)
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