western schism

With a PoD after 1380, how can we tinker enough with the events of the Western Schism (in which there were two, then briefly three, Popes competing for supremacy over the Catholic Church) so that there's a long-lasting shattering of the Catholic Church in Europe over regional, national, and...

So, after the fall of The Elder Welfs, the closest occasion where the Kingdom of Arles or the Kingdom of the Two-Burgundies was created was with Charles I of Anjou. He and Pope Nicholas III were planning to create the Arelat as a separate state from the Holy Roman Empire with Charles Martel, who...

The western schism was practically the continuation of the avignon papacy, sparked when a pope was finally elected in rome, but the anti-pope in avignon refused to comply. The western schism continued up until the early 15th century, with Martin V's election as the sole and only pope of rome...