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, Neo-Macedonia, and Chirondom have intermarried with Catholic European princesses, and New Harumf is ruled directly by a branch of the Dos Santos Aveiro-Medici family.

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.