Clement IV
There was a Pope who had married to have two daughters before he became a monk, a bishop, and a cardinal in the Vatican.
Clement IV, born Gui Foulques, Roman Catholic Pope from 1265 to 1268, son of a successful lawyer and judge, was born at St Gilles-sur-Rhône. He studied law, and became a valued adviser of Louis IX of France. He married, and was the father of two daughters, but after the death of his wife took orders. In 1257 he became bishop of Le Puy; in 1259 he was elected archbishop of Narbonne; and on the 24th of December 1261 Urban IV created him cardinal bishop of Sabina. He was appointed legate in England on the 22nd of November 1263, and before his return was elected pope at Perugia on the 5th of February 1265.
http://www.nndb.com/people/195/000094910/
When Guy Foulquois embraced the ecclesiastical state, he contracted friendship with the holy doctors Saint Thomas Aquinas and Saint Bonaventure. Urban IV, who had great confidence in Guy, made him cardinal-bishop of Sabina, to reward the ability with which he had filled the office of legate to England, when sent there to appease the differences between the king, Henry III, and Simon de Montfort. The Cardinal-bishop of Sabina was absent when Urban IV died; nevertheless the Sacred College elected him pontiff. Being informed of his election, he repaired to Viterbo, and on his knees entreated the electors not to persist in their choice; but they were inflexible. He ascended the throne with the name of Clement IV, and was crowned on the 22nd of February, 1265, which was the year in which Dante Alighieri was born.
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Clement, weakened by old age and sickness, but full of glory and of merits in the administration of Holy Church, died at Viterbo, on the 29th of November, 1268, and was interred in the church of the Dominicans. He was the first pontiff on whose tomb armorial bearings were placed. This pontiff, who never entered Rome, governed the Church three years, nine months, and twenty days.
Clement IV would not allow his relations to be near him and he forbade them to make any recommendations to him. He married his niece to a simple knight, and promised only a moderate sum as her marriage portion. He showed no greater eagerness for the settlement in life of two daughters left him by his marriage; and they became nuns in the abbey of Saint Sauveur, at Nimes.
Novaes is untiring in his admiration of Clement IV. "He was," says that historian, "an eloquent preacher and a consummate jurisconsult. Durand calls him 'light of the law, illustrious in penance, in prayer, in apostolic zeal, in modesty, and in morals, so that the higher he rose in dignity, the more he flourished in sanctity.' During his whole reign he undertook nothing of consequence without first consulting the Sacred College."It is very interesting that the Vatican elected such an ex-civilian to the Pope in the late 13th century. At the time the Crusade was still sent around Jerusalem while Baghdad was occupied by invading Mongolians. It was time when Marco Polo, a Venetian merchant, was traveling from Constantinople to China and then back to Venice.
http://www.saint-mike.org/library/papal_library/clementiv/biography.html
In this period the Islamic world and the Byzantine Empire were at a kind of crisis. Though leaders of Muslims later succeeded in getting through a crisis, the Byzantine Empire never regained its strength and influence. On the other hand, Mongolians subsequently lost interest in conquering the Middle East and Europe. And Europe or specifically Western Europe and the Vatican continued their way in the Middle Ages into Renaissance.
The fact that a man like Clement IV became Pope in the late 13th century must have been a portent of Renaissance that started in the 14th century in Italy, good or bad.
And if the trend that an ex-ordinary-citizen cardinal or an ex-layman cardinal became Pope had continued after Clement IV, the Vatican today should be more efficient in their work for God.
In addition, Clement IV took a stern measure against Judaism.
Pope Clement IV issues the papal bull Turbato corde, equating conversion or relapse to Judaism with heresy and thus forbidding Christians from doing so.
According to Clement, the jurisdiction of "Inquisitors of heresy" (Dominican and Franciscan Inquisitors) will now include four new categories of persons: Jews who had been baptized into Christianity, Jews who help the former return from Christianity to Judaism, Christians who demonstrate any attraction to Judaism, and Jews who lure Christians to convert to JudaismProbably it could be regraded as one of major factors that caused tragedies of Judaists in later centuries. Renaissance was, from the beginning, not destined for providing great advantage to Judaists.
http://skepticism.org/timeline/july-history/7085-pope-clement-iv-declares-relapse-judaism-comparable-heresy.html
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Luk 8:13 They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.