On 653 AD Constans II could turn to church matters once again after dealing with Arabs. Pope Martin I had condemned both Monothelitism and Constans' attempt at a compromise. Now the emperor ordered his Exarch of Ravenna to arrest the Pope. Exarch Olympius excused himself from this task, but his successor Theodorus I carried it out in 653. The Pope was brought to Constantinople and condemned as a criminal, ultimately being exiled to Cherson, where he died in 655.
WI the kidnapping of Pope Martin I lead to a rebellion against the Exarchate of Ravenna and an invitation to the first Roman Catholic king of the Lombards Aripert I to invade in Byzantine Italy avenging Pope's himiliation?
How is this altering History? Any thoughts?