So much for the Great Schism

[ewx]

Pope not giving you the answer you want? Try another one.

The Pope had still not granted a dispensation for the marriage of Prince Edward and Anne Neville; Louis's patience had lone since been exhausted, and in desperation he had sent the Grand Vicar of Bayeux to procure one from the Eastern Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem. This arrived in December, at which time the King moved to Amboise where the wedding would take place.

(from Alison Weir's book on the Wars of the Roses.)

Comments

[gerald_duck]

I'm still a bit confused about all the popes and antipopes who used to hang around Avignon and Pisa, but I got the general impression the French tended to create themselves a new pope rather than bother going to Jerusalem for a second opinion.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

AFAIK most of that was some decades earlier. Also, perhaps that only works if there's a need for a new Pope anyway...

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Jerusalem? Rather than Rome?

[pm215]

Go not to the Catholics for advice, for they will say both "yes", "no" and "try another Pope".