Between 1521 and 1526 a war of words occurred between him and Thomas More / Henry VIII in the books Assertio and Responsio. However this stopped in 1525 when the army got too close for his security. The Lutherans, fearing their lives, try to set a new foothold. However, their Hungarian escape turns into war against Louis II. In France they are hunted and they avoided Spain, for Henry VIII was so fanatical they fear him as well. Only Scotland with its turmoil in the recent regency of an infant Robert IV gave them a chance. After Luther, Carl Pfaff became the spiritual leader on the Lutherans and claimed to be the new pope selected by God and gave himself the name Sixtus V.