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What if a King, during some time between (1000 AD - 1514AD), had enough bad blood with the Pope and/or Papacy to march on Rome and depose him?
And upon Execution or Indefinite Inprisonment of the Pope and/or Conclave of Cardinals, declares himself to be the Pope de facto, Catholic Law be-damned.
Hereditary Papacy is immediately established, with Salic Law and everything (Divine Right of Popes?)
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What would be the ramifications?
Would the Papacy collapse in on itself? (lose is spiritual influence)
What sort of power would this Hereditary Pope-King have during the high middle ages?
Which King do you think could conceivably do this?