Dos Santos Aveiro-Medici family

The Dos Santos Aveiro-Medici family is one of the most important families in the Nationstates World Regions (NWR). As the family from which all Catholic European Pope-Emperors are selected, it is the leading power in Catholic Europe and the Genesian Catholic Church, and plays a profound role in the politics of the wider world, both Catholic and non-Catholic.

In addition to holding the Papacy, the family has marriage relations with other nations' royal dynasties. The reigning dynasties of Nag Ehgoeg, Norightsia, and Chirondom have intermarried with Catholic European princesses, and New Harumf is ruled directly by a branch of the Dos Santos Aveiro-Medici family. The family has also married into the powerful family of nobility from Neo-Macedonia

List of Dos Santos Aveiro-Medici Popes:

22. Ronaldo Gianni dos Santos Aveiro-Medici (Pope Michael I)
23. Gianfranco dos Santos Aveiro-Medici (St. Pope Emmanuel I)
24. Fernando Emmanuelo dos Santos Aveiro-Medici (Pope Celestine VI)
25. Umberto Juan Marco dos Santos Aveiro-Medici (Pope Ferdinand)
26. Fernando Emmanuelo dos Santos Aveiro-Medici (Pope Michael II)
27. Amadeo Fernando dos Santos Aveiro-Medici (Blessed Pope Christian VI)
28. Emmanuelo Conrade dos Santos Aveiro-Medici (Pope Benedict XVII)
29. Cristiano Fernando dos Santos Aveiro-Medici (Pope Augustus)
30. Gravir Seminù Marshall (Pope Gravir) *Semisalic succession
31. August Kasimerz dos Santos Aveiro-Medici (Pope Christian VII)
36. Dominico Eduardo Francisco Luis Maria dos Santos Aveiro-Medici (Pope Emmanuel III)
37. William dos Santos Aveiro-Medici (Pope Julius IV, incumbent)

Dogma of Hereditary Papacy

St. Pope Emmanuel I promulgated the dogma of Hereditary Papacy, which required all Catholic Popes to be of the Blood Royal, ie they must be direct descendents of the Dos Santos Aveiro-Medici family.