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What would have kept Clement V from instigating a popular revolt against Philip V?

Then it is very difficult for me to understand why the pope was not able to or would not consider the possibility to instigate a popular uprising against the King himself. A popular revolt was not an ...
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Why were there more Catholics in Lancashire than other parts of England around the time of the Jacobite rebellions?

Even in the early 1700s, the North of England was a long ways away from the centers of power in the South. It was a lot further away in the 1500s when Catholicism was being overthrown by Puritans who ...
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