If they weren't extremely odd, would we remember them? There are billions of people alive right now; unless you're someone like Ea-nasir, noteworthy only because it happened to be his correspondence that survived to the modern day, you're not going to stand out from the crowd otherwise.
There are innumerable examples of historical women that are extremely odd and do not stand up to scrutiny.
First one that comes to mind was Helen Keller.
If they weren't extremely odd, would we remember them? There are billions of people alive right now; unless you're someone like Ea-nasir, noteworthy only because it happened to be his correspondence that survived to the modern day, you're not going to stand out from the crowd otherwise.
So you conclude that they were made up. At the very least you should have named "Pope" Joan, but you obviously have to focus on true stories.
Funny how feminists were so influential in 1429, eh?
I mean, I didn't say feminism was influential in 1429.
She wasn't canonized until 1920, when feminism was already gaining strength globally.
I mean, you're clearly saying something like that your boogeywomen made her up or something.
Ironically, the story of Pope Joan was invented in order to show why a woman should never be pope.
Right, Syllabus of Errors-era Catholicism was really big on feminism.