Magna Carta
The set constraints on despotic conduct such as that of the Norman and Plantagenet rulers.
objective of feudal rule
The has always been a balancing effort that handed authority to both parties.
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Magna Carta
The set constraints on despotic conduct such as that of the Norman and Plantagenet rulers.
objective of feudal rule
The has always been a balancing effort that handed authority to both parties.
English battle
The in the High Middle Ages was to safeguard the rights of the favored few, not the king's power.
Canute
(r. 1016- 1035), the Dane who restored order and brought unity to England following the civil wars that had plagued the nation under the reign of the inept Ethelred II (r. 978- 1016), admired and followed his example.
Henry
brought nearly the whole west coast of France to the throne as a result of his father's inheritance (Anjou) and his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine (ca.
Pope Alexander III
Becket's subsequent assassination in 1170 and canonization by in 1172 heightened widespread indignation of the king's harsh tactics.
1100 1135
Henry I (r. ), William's son, died without a male heir, putting England into virtual anarchy until the accession of Henry II (r. 1154- 1189)
Magna Carta
was more of a political accident than a political genius.