church relations

• when did Hubert Walter die?


  1205
• Who does John want to be Bishop?


  John De Gray
• Who does the Bishops of Canterbury want to Bishop?


  Reginald
• Who does Pope Innocent III recommend to be Arch-Bishop?


  Stephen Langton
• Why was England placed under interdict?

  • John threatened the Pope by refusing to allow papal legates to go to Rome
  • John exiles the Bishops of Canterbury
  • John seizes the vacant see
• when was England placed under interdict?

  1208
• Pros of England under interdict:

  • immediately seized church property
  • allows clergy to buy back property for extortionate prices
  • took priests wives & children hostage to ransom
  • once excommunicated- church land become vacant- falls into royal hands
  • John was making 20,000 marks a year from interdict
  • 3 times more than Saladin tithe
  • John initially used a tillage of 66,000 marks from the Jews
• Cons of England under interdict:

  • November 1209- John excommunicated by Pope Innocent III
  • Throughout England's time under interdict, John alienates most of his followers
• England after interdict:

  • interdict lifted- Pope now John's overlord
  • John now under Papal protection
  • £8000 ordered to pay to the Church
  • Pope begins to intervene in the Church
  • Stephen Langton was made Archbishop in 1214