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So at the Papal Conclave of 1549-50 Cardinal Pole was only two votes short of the required majority to become Pope. Only his own opposition to his election and the arrival of the French Cardinal's stopped his election. Suppose Cardinal Pole decided he wanted to be Pope, campaigned and got he last votes he needed. What would the Pontificate of Pope Reginald Pole look like? What name would he take? How would this effect England, especially during Mary I's reign? How would Pole's papacy effect the Council of Trent?
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