LIST OF FRENCH POPES

Sixteen popes have had French ancestry, all in the second half of the medieval era. The seven popes of the Avignon papacy were French (numbers 10-16 below in bold). French is the most common non-Italian papal ancestry.
#Pope Silvester II, 999-1003: Gerbert of Aurillac.
#Pope Stephen IX, 1057-1058: Frederick of Lorraine.
#Pope Nicholas II, 1058-1061: Gerard of Burgundy.
#Bl. Pope Urban II, 1088-1099: Otho of Lagery (or Otto or Odo).
#Pope Callistus II, 1119-1124: Guido of Vienne.
#Pope Urban IV, 1261-1264: Jacques Pantaléon.
#Pope Clement IV, 1265-1268: Guy Foulques.
#Bl. Pope Innocent V, 1276: Pierre de Tarentaise.
#Pope Martin IV, 1281-1285: Simon de Brie.
#'Pope Clement V', 1305-1314: Bertrand de Got.
#'Pope John XXII', 1316-1334: Jacques d'Euse.
#'Pope Benedict XII', 1334-1342: Jacques Fournier.
#'Pope Clement VI', 1342-1352: Pierre Roger.
#'Pope Innocent VI', 1352-1362: Stephen Aubert.
#'Bl. Pope Urban V', 1362-1370: Guillaume de Grimoard.
#'Pope Gregory XI', 1370-1378: Pierre Roger de Beaufort.