Re: Girl Genius (GG) 7 March 2008

In message <63vj3pF26big6U1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Sean O'Hara
<seanohara@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes
>In the Year of the Earth Rat, the Great and Powerful David McMillan
>declared:
>> >
>>     I noted the bit all "All seven Popes."  I guess Sparkiness made
>>the  breakup of the Roman Empire a bit more, er, *fragemented* in the
>>GG 'verse.
>>
>
>I didn't interpret it that way at all. Multiple Popes weren't at all
>uncommon in history, though the most was three during the Great Schism.
>I take the "seven Popes" line to indicate that the Spark Wars have
>created an even bigger schism, with seven rival claimants to the
>papacy, not that there was some early POD WRT the Catholic Church.

There have been three claimants on three separate occasions:

687             In opposition to St Sergius I (687-701) two antipopes
                were also elected, Theodore II and Paschal I both were
                deposed the same year.

1409-1411       The Council of Pisa deposed roman pope Gregory XII
                (Angelo Corrari)(1406-1411 d.1415) and Avignon antipope
                Benedict XIII (Pedro Martínez de Luna) (1394-1423) and
                elected Pisan antipope Alexander V (Pietro di Candia)
                (1409-1410) when he died a conclave elected John XXIII
                (Baldassare Cossa) (1410-1415 d.1419). Neither existing
                pope accepted deposition and the Roman pope retained
                widespread sup****t, while most of the Avignon sup****ters
                defected to Pisa leaving Avignon with only Aragon.
                Benedict was expelled from Avignon in 1403 following a
                five year siege and relocated to Spain.

1425-1429       The Council of Constance deposed John XXIII and Gregory
                XII abdicated, after Gregory had died, Martin V (Odo
                Colonna) (1417-1431) was elected pope. The rather more
                marginal Benedict XIII rejected his deposition. And when
                he died, while his cardinals had accepted Martin as pope
                he appointed four more just before he died, three of
                them held a conclave and elected Clement VIII (Gil
                Sanchez Muñoz y Carbón) (1423-1429 d.1446) Jean Carrier,
                the fourth, who had not been present, held a one man
                conclave and elected Benedict XIV (Bernard Garnier)
                (1425-c.1429). Benedict had appointed four cardinals who
                when he died then elected Jean Carrier who also adopted
                the name Benedict XIV (1430-c.1437 d.?), he had by this
                point been imprisoned by Clement (who had resigned and
                recognised Martin as pope) and reigned in captivity.

I am going by which of the claimants are now regarded as having been
valid by the Roman Catholic Church.
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