Avignon:The Rise of the Anti-pope
The Prologue
For many years, the province of Avignon had been ruled by the Papal State however one day, the archbishop, who had been stationed there to govern Avignon, soon had a radical idea.What if he could revolt against the pope and become even more powerful in the Catholic world.So he suddenly managed to get the people and the full Papal garrison on his side as he preached a bleak future in which a "reformed christianity"would spread across Europe, and he blamed all of this on the Papal State and the pope being corrupt and if Europe supported the archbishop then this spread will be prevented.And so, with a swift execution of all soldiers loyal to the Pope and with France continuing to deny the Papal troops military access the archbishop declared Avignon independent and proclaimed himself the anti-pope.From here he selected the anti-cardinals and formed the anti-curia and thus began the quest for Europe to realise that the anti-pope, not the pope is the religious leader to look up to.