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Clement m. Latin clemens 'merciful, loving; mild, gentle'.

The name of a 1st C saint, a 1st C pope and saint, a 2nd C saint and church father, a 9th C Irish saint, a 9th C Bulgarian saint, an 11th C pope, an 11th C antipope, a 12th C pope, a 13th C pope, two 14th C popes, a 14th C antipope, a 15th C antipope, and two 16th C popes.

Czech Republic
Latin
● 1351 Climent (nom) chlumecky 17
England
Latin
● 1327 Clemente (abl) SaxhamSf p. 111
English
● 1540 Clement StAnthonlin p. 1; 1558 Clement SaxhamSf p. 130; 1560 Clement bruton-vol1 p. 31; 1581 Clement DEmar-vol2 p. 6; 1582 Clement BUmar-vol9 p. 6, DEmar-vol2 p. 8; 1587 Clement SaxhamSf p. 4; 1589 Clement DEmar-vol2 p. 18; 1591 Clemence COmar-vol2 p. 23; 1592 Clemence ibid. p. 24; 1593 Clemence ibid. p. 24; 1594 Clemence ibid. p. 24; 1596 Clement BUmar-vol2 p. 141; 1597 Clemmant StAnthonlin p. 39; 1599 Clement BUmar-vol1 p. 27
France
Latin
● 1135 Clemens (nom) clairvaux-12thc 7, Clementis (gen) CartNDdOurscamp LXXVIII, clairvaux-12thc 7; 1138x1162 Clemens (nom) ibid. 64, Clemente (abl) ibid. 59, Clementis (gen) ibid. 64; 1146 Clemente (abl) CartNDdOurscamp CXII; 1147 Clemente (dat) clairvaux-12thc 14; c1156 Clementis (gen) CartNDdOurscamp XXXII; 1162 Clementis (gen) ibid. LXIII; 1163 Clemente (abl) clairvaux-12thc 104, Clementis (gen) CartNDdOurscamp XCVI, clairvaux-12thc 104; 1180 Clemente (abl) RotScaNor p. 34; 1260 Clementi (gen) ArrestReg-volI XXIII, Ascension; 1301 Clemens (nom) MemPic-vol17 p. 250; 1378 Clemens (nom) hanquetvol1 2370, Clementi (dat) ibid. 508, Clementis (abl) ibid. 1319
Old French
● 1296 Climent paris1296 p. 58; 1301 Climens (nom) MemPic-vol17 p. 233; 1313 Clement Paris1313 p. 64, Climent ibid. p. 12; 1327 Clement lecoy p. 174
Middle French
● 1418 Clement HGParis p. 375, Climent ibid. p. 376; 1421 Clamens favier 239, Climent ibid. 39; 1423 Clement ibid. 280; 1438 Clement ibid. 25
Italy
Latin
● 1527 Clemens (nom) Rome1527 p. 85, Clemente (abl) ibid. p. 82
Spain
Latin
● 1488 Clemens (nom) carbonell p. 21; 1489 Clementis (gen) ibid. p. 35
Catalan
● 1510 Climent valencia1510 4417
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