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King John & the Church

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King John and the Church

King John tried to control the Church. This made him very unpopular.

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The choice for Archbishop of Canterbury

  • King John also tried to control the Church.
  • For example, he rejected the Pope's choice of Stephen Langton for the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1206.
    • This made him very unpopular with churchmen.
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The Pope

  • The Pope did not like King John’s actions.
    • In 1208 AD the Pope issued the ‘interdict’. This stopped people in England from having sacraments.
  • Between 1209 AD and 1213 AD, King John was ‘excommunicated’ (kicked out of) the Church.

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1The Medieval World: 450-1450 AD

1.1Anglo-Saxon England

1.2The Contest for the English Throne

1.3Conquering the Holy Land, 10-96-1396 AD

1.4King John

1.5The Magna Carta & Parliament

1.6The Black Death

2Worldviews

3The Empire of Mali

4The Renaissance & Reformations, 1500-1598 AD

5The British Empire, 1583-1960 AD

6The Peasants' Revolt

7Religion in the Middle Ages

8Slavery, 1619-1833 AD

9The English Civil War, 1642-1660

10The Industrial Revolution, 1750-1840

11US Independence, 1775-1783

12The French Revolution, 1789-1815

13The British Empire, 1857–1930

14Suffrage

15World War 1, 1914-1918

16The Inter-War Years, 1919-1939

17World War 2, 1939-1945

18The Cold War, 1947-1962

19Civil Rights in the USA, 1954-1975

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