Medieval history

• When is the Magna Carta

  1215
• How many clauses were in the Magna Carta?

  63
• What was the tax on barons called?

  Scutage tax
• The pope who deemed Magna Carta as invalid is called?


  pope innocent the 3rd
• Who helps the barons in the first barons war?

  prince Louis
• What does henry the third give the pope money for?

  To make his son head of sicilly
• When is the provisions of oxford?

  1258
• How much did Henry agree to pay the pope?

  3 times his annual income
• How many people were in the great council That would supervise the king?

  15
• Who gained more rights during de montfords rule?

  knights and burgesses
• What Was the battle called that de montford captured Henry and his son?

  Battle of Lewes
• How long did de montford rule for?

  15 months
• Who escapes imprisonment during de montfords time in charge and raises an army?

  Edward
• What was the battle called that de montford died in?

  Evesham
• where Was de Montford earl of?

  leicester
• Why did people hate Henry 3rd?

  Liked foreigners too much, raised taxes, lost lots of land, put his son Edmund on the throne of sicilly, king sympathised the French
• Who calls the meeting of the barons that later agree to march against the king?

  Gilbert the red
• What did the provisions of oxford limitate the king to do?

  His authority had to be approved
• Causes of the peasants revolt?

  1348-black plague, 1351- statute of labourers, 1377-81 poll taxes
• How many people dissapeared from the official record of the poll tax

  450 Thousand
• Long term affects of the peasants revolt

  More rights towards peasants, tax never as high again, peasants free after 100 years, poll tax not used again till 1990