Pope Clement VII's 1530 bull approving the coronation of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V might seem an assertion of papal supremacy until one notes that it followed the 1527 sack of Rome by Charles's mutinous troops, many of them German Lutherans.
They start no doubt with his deep Republican roots, roots that have been growing further into the ground for many Roman Catholic priests since the time of Roe v.
The city also boasts its Westgate, through which Henry V marched his troops to Agincourt. and the remains of the Roman town of Clausentum located in the Bitterne area.