I must tell you i had the shock of my life when, playing a migration game as venice in teh holy land (and about 20 turns after giving him venice and irkanon) i saw the 'strongest faction' message pop up - the papal states :O
A quick toggle_fow showed that he'd conquered quite a few territories east of venice as well as milan itself, and florence.
In my current game the pope holds all of southern italy (florance, rome and naples) as well as corsica - without any intervention by me :P
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