Popes of the Roman Catholic Church
1775-1801: Pius VI
Giovanni Angelo Braschi
1801-1808: Benedict XI
Henry Benedict Stuart
-elected with little French influence due to French Wars > First French War (1792-1804)
-the Jacobite claimant for the British crown under the Heads of British Isles > Stuart Line
1808-1830: Leo XII
Giulio Maria della Somaglia
1830-1831: Interregnum
-due to French Wars > Second French War (1821-32) held in Palerno, Sicily
1831-1839: Leo XIII
Emmanuele de Gregorio
1839-1858: Pius VII
Luigi Lambruschini
-faced with French Wars > Third French War (1847-1854)
-fall of Rome
-forced to flee to Toledo
-convenes Council of Madrid to approve of papal infallibility
-incites pretty large schism of Independent Catholic churches