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Next come the sarcophagi of Innocent VII.,

Ange Corrario, Venetian, car- dinal, elected the 30th Nov. 1406, to suc- ceed Innocent VII. ; abdicated the 4th July 1415, died at the age of ninety- two the 18th Oct. at Rimini, 1417 Council of Pisa in 1409; it deposes Gre- gory XII. and Benedict XIII.; it elects Alexander V. 211.

Successively bishop of Castello, Latin patriarch of Constantinople, cardinal-priest of San Marco, and papal secretary, he was elected to succeed Innocent VII., after an interregnum of twenty-four days, under the express condition that, should the antipope Benedict XIII. at Avignon renounce all claim to the papacy, he also would renounce his, so that the long schism might be terminated.

In July 1405 Chicheley began a diplomatic career by a mission to the new Roman pope Innocent VII., who was professing his desire to end the schism in the papacy by resignation, if his French rival at Avignon would do likewise.

Three coats of arms on the front of the step at the bottom of the picture are those of the Bishop of Ascoli, Pope Innocent VII., the reigning Pontiff, and the City of Ascoli.