Arnaud de Pellegrue

[1] Pellegrue led the papal army after Clement V declared war on Venice in 1309 over the disputed lordship of the strategic city[2] of Ferrara,[3] in which Francesco d'Este and his brothers opposed the succession as signore of Ferrara of their great-nephew Folco in 1308 and turned to Padua and the papacy for support.

In May Pellegrue led the papal army though Asti to Parma, Piacenza, and Bologna, augmenting his forces with local mobs as he passed through.

[1] His forces outnumbered the Venetian supporters of Folco by the time he reached Ferrara in August; once there, he laid siege to Castel Tedaldo and blocked navigation on the Po River.

[3] According to Venetian reports, the captured forces were subjected to various atrocities, including blinding, when the fortress fell in September.

In February 1312 Arnaud was one of the three French cardinals and one Italian conferring with Guillaume de Nogaret and other agents of Philip IV of France at the Council of Vienne where the Templars were to be suppressed.