("The Submission of the Antipope Victor IV to Pope Innocent II", Painting by French Artist Antoine Favray, 1743) There have been other popes-in-exile who would have never recovered possession of the Roman See, or perhaps never even been heard of, had it not been for sympathetic Catholic political powers coming to their rescue. The Catholic world might never have known about Pope Innocent II (1130-38), whose see had been usurped for eight years, first by the antipope Anacletus II (Peter Pierleone) and later by antipope Victor IV, Pierleone's successor, had not St. Bernard of Clairvaux convinced the Holy Roman Emperor Lotharius to send his troops to Rome and force the ouster of the false pope and restoration of the rightful Pope to the Chair of Peter. (In contrast, by 1958, all the Catholic Monarchs of any significance, had either been overthrown or assassinated by the forces of Freemasonry, and thus, there was not one Catholic political power left on earth available or able to defend the claims of the rightful pope, Gregory XVII, against the usurpation of the Vatican by agents of the lodge.)