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Besides having a very large nose, in 1515 Francis I of France fought against Pope Julius II in the War of the League of Cambrai. Being a Roman Catholic himself, ruling over a Roman Catholic country, how was this reconciled with going to war with the pope?

by /u/SteveLithops in /r/AskHistorians

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