Have religious figures ever used force to punish royalty like in this TV series?
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Religious figures and leaders have often publicly called for the overthrow of political leaders and/or been involved in secret plots against them.
for example, in the old testament King Saul committed genocide against a neighboring nation and the prophet Samuel criticized Saul for not killing enough of them, and anointed David as king, leading to David's revolt against Saul.
It is often said that the priests of the main Babylonian god Bel plotted against the last Babylonian King, Nabonidus, who was a devote of the moon god Sin, and helped the Persians conquer Babylonia.
IMHO the whole crusading movement was a plot by the successors of Hildeband to usurp military power to use against their political enemies. At first they launched crusades against Muslims in the near east and Spain and pagans in Europe, and when crusades became more customary they then preached crusades against heretics and their political opponents (anyone who didn't accept their power grabs without question).
Norman Housely wrote a book, The Italian Crusades: The Papal-Angevin alliance and the crusades against Christian lay powers about aggressive clerical crusades against Christian nobles, kings and emperors.
https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Italian_Crusades.html?id=QRhWU5YJyMcC[1]
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The best example I can think of in modern times was when the Ayatollah Khomeni of Iran called for the Shah to "reform" the country in the 1960s, and successfully called for the overthrow of the Shah in the late 1970s, because the Shah was too "pro-foreign" (U.S.).
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The best example I know of is what happened to Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV.
He got into a dispute with the Pope over appointment rights, which culminated in the Pope excommunicating Henry (and Henry in turn declaring the pope deposed).
Since Emperors were crowned by the Pope, this opened up a path for Henry's political rivals to claim he was no longer rightful Emperor. Henry's political position in the HRE was weak enough that he felt like compromise would be best, so he performed the proscribed penance. This included, as the story goes, waiting on his knees in the snow for 3 days for the Pope.
The impending revolt by the German nobles happened anyway, but this bought Henry enough popular support that he was able to defeat it. When the Pope then excommunicated Henry again, it was such a transparently personal attack that it did Henry little political harm. He simply marched on Rome and installed his own Pope.
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