Pseudocardinal (Catholicism)

Pseudocardinals are called these cardinals, created by the antipopes. Their state, like the state of the antipopes is disputed. There are many pseudocardinals created during the controversy between the Holy See and the Holy Roman Empire and during the Western Schism. Some of them had switched their obedience. The legitimacy of the popes of the different obediences during the Western Schism was not a clear matter for their contemporaries. The terms "antipope" and "pseudocardinal" or "anticardinal" were not used at that time. This is how some modern Roman Catholic historians call them.