Charles craftily lured Henry VIII into alliances, promising the Tudor monarch support ... boasted a court of equal extravagance. The Holy Roman Empire halted the Ottoman advance into Europe at the ...

Pope Leo XIV has declared himself a Roman as he completes the final ceremonial steps cementing his role as the bishop of Rome ...

the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, would carry out the notorious Sack of Rome. At that moment—when he was three and a half years into his pontificate as Pope Clement VII—Giulio was glad of the ...

Pope Leo VIII was born in Italy. He was pope from 963 to 965 A.D., though the legitimacy of his election is still debated. He was the 131st pope. Otto I the Holy Roman Emperor pushed for Leo VIII ...

Papal conclaves have featured calls of election fraud and bribery so gauche that riches were wheeled in on donkey carts.

When cardinals met in 1549, an envoy for the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V let them know that ... regretted picking the bad-tempered Pope Urban VI and appointed a rival French antipope, Clement ...

Pope St. Stephen II was the first sovereign of the Papal States, a gift from the Frankish king Pepin the Short, the son of Charles Martel and father of Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor.

Pius VI (1775-1799) – 24 years ... Alexander III also struggled against the internalized conflicts such as with Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, and headed the attempt to seal the battle over ...

Formosus was very much involved in politics and the game of whack-a-pope, and had been forced to flee to France after the candidate for Holy Roman Emperor he supported lost out to Charles the Bald.

The last pope not to be was Pope Urban VI in 1378. Jorge Mario Bergoglio ... A few others came from inside the Holy Roman Empire but outside the bounds of modern-day Italy.