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The Church had separate trials and punishments to those of the monarch’s, any member of the Church who committed a crime would be judged in the Church court. The Church would judge a person’s innocence through trials by ordeals. These ordeals include ordeal by poison, water, pulling an object from boiling oil, carrying hot metal over a certain distance, walking over hot coals if one of the burns got infected, the person would guilty. If a person would be found guilty, assuming that they weren’t dead from infections or burns, they would be punished by banishment or excommunication, were the person would be unable to talk to any church member or attend any church activities. These laws were also used on King John in the 15th century causing a rebellion, which meant that the Church had far greater influence on the people and the barons than the
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The crusades are an example of this power, with over five major crusades and numerous other, smaller crusades that the Church commanded. The crusades started in 1095 when Pope Urban the second encouraged Christian kings to win back Jerusalem from the Seljuk Muslims who had taken the land in 1065 and had been killing Christian pilgrims who were travelling to the Holy Land. The Pope was outraged at this attack and told the European people that it was shameful that the Holy Land had been captured by ‘barbaric’ Muslims. The first crusade was called The People’s Crusade which was an army of peasants who thought that they could regain Jerusalem because God would protect them. The peasants had brought no weapons with them and when the Seljuks saw them, the massacred them leaving no one alive. The first official crusade was called the First Crusade and was the only properly successful crusade. The First Crusade managed to capture Jerusalem and the Holy Land and maintain their control on it for around two hundred years but the Muslims had gradually taken back their land until all the Christian lands were gone. The next crusades were wars to regain what the First Crusade had lost but none of them were as successful as the first. The Church had large control over the people through their demands and encouragement at sending king’s and lord’s soldiers and in some cases citizens to
The crusades are an example of this power, with over five major crusades and numerous other, smaller crusades that the Church commanded. The crusades started in 1095 when Pope Urban the second encouraged Christian kings to win back Jerusalem from the Seljuk Muslims who had taken the land in 1065 and had been killing Christian pilgrims who were travelling to the Holy Land. The Pope was outraged at this attack and told the European people that it was shameful that the Holy Land had been captured by ‘barbaric’ Muslims. The first crusade was called The People’s Crusade which was an army of peasants who thought that they could regain Jerusalem because God would protect them. The peasants had brought no weapons with them and when the Seljuks saw them, the massacred them leaving no one alive. The first official crusade was called the First Crusade and was the only properly successful crusade. The First Crusade managed to capture Jerusalem and the Holy Land and maintain their control on it for around two hundred years but the Muslims had gradually taken back their land until all the Christian lands were gone. The next crusades were wars to regain what the First Crusade had lost but none of them were as successful as the first. The Church had large control over the people through their demands and encouragement at sending king’s and lord’s soldiers and in some cases citizens to