That would have solved much:)
Meh. they were only trying to install their own pope. A Christendom without a patriarch hadn’t occurred to anyone yet. (King John I of England even tried to place himself under Islamic authority rather than under papal authority because he couldn’t imagine such a thing!!! Fortunately, the Muslim ruler wouldn’t take him: any people who could be ruled by such a treacherous man would bring only discredit and crisis, he figured.)