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It's a tough challenge considering the troubled history of the Papacy in the late 14th and early 15th centuries. Not only do you have to make the popes stay in Avignon, but you have to make the Avignon seat more legitimate than any contending seat in Rome.
But beyond the minutiae of the history of internecine divisions of Catholicism, it's the long-term consequences I'm interested in.