User:Sg647112c/Papal Europe
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Planned flag of Pope Paul III's Papal Europe, with his Papal coat of arms.
After the excommunications of Martin Luther in 1521 and of Henry VIII of England in 1533, Pope Paul III sought a way to strengthen the Roman Catholic Church.
At approximately the same time, the Catholic Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor was seeking a way of consolidating his nine thrones without the use of military force.
Ambassadors between to two rules first proposed the idea of a Papal Europe whereby all of the Catholic monarchs in Europe would be symbolically coroneted by the Pope and in return would help to quash the spread of Protestantism.
James V of Scotland and Francis I of France were quick to send their own messengers in the face of Henry VIII's growing power. Ivan IV of Russia was slower to respond.
