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but the pope s response is complicated by his political alliances. the pope was effectively the prisoner of the emperor charles v, who as it happens was the nephew of queen catherine of england. narrator: clement vii does not want to jeopardize his fragile truce with charles v by agreeing to his aunt s anullment, but king henry threatens to withdraw all of england from the catholic church if he does not get his way. so on the one way, there was the king of england saying, declare my marriage null or the church will suffer for it because the stream of money from england to the papacy will be cut off. on the other hand was the emperor charles v who says, if you divorce my aunty, you will suffer for it. narrator: propose clement is in a precarious position and
slaughtered. horrified by the carnage, pope clement vii flees the vatican and seeks safety. he gets away by sneaking out of the city. narrator: the pope hides out in a castle outside of rome for five week, but eventually the german army surrounds his refuge. clement vii is forced to surrender to king charles v. there was certainly no intention to kill the pope. why would you do that to the holy father? but what the emperor wanted was to make the pope helpless, and he did so. and now the emperor had him at his mercy.