World History Veritas Ch. 9 Princes And Popes

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Alfred the Great

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878 English Monarchy
a. united southern England
b. introduced shires and shire-reeves
c. compiled the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

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Canute

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1030 English Monarchy
united all of England

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Edward the Confessor

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1042 English Monarchy
died without a direct heir

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Harold

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1066 English Monarchy
elected king by nobles (witan)

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William the Conqueror

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1066 English Monarchy
a. created tenants-in-chief
b. forced all vassals to swear allegiance to him
c. established the curia regis
d. Domesday book

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Henry II

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1154 English Monarchy
a. established circuit courts under royal control
b. created a common law

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John

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1215 - English Monarchy
forced to sign the Magna Carta

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Edward I

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1272 English Monarchy
a. conquered Wales
b. called the first ("model") parliament
c. acknowledged that Parliament must approve new taxes

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Hugh Capet

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987 French Monarchy
a. elected king by French lords
b. started the long Capetian line of kings

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Louis VI

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1108 French Monarchy
became master of Ile-de-France

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Philip II

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1180 French Monarchy
a. tripled royal domain
b. installed royal baillis

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Louis IX

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1226 French Monarchy
a. gave dignity to royal office
b. established a permanent royal court in Paris
c. issued ordinances without consulting vassals

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Philip IV

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1285 French Monarchy
summoned Estates-General for "advice"

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lay investiture

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Claim of kings and nobles not only to appoint church officials but also to invest them with their religious authority

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simony

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The buying and selling of religious or blessed articles as well as church offices

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friars

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Members of the mendicant (begged for daily sustenance) orders

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mendicant orders

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Monastic orders that labored to bring about reform by living and preaching among the people; they begged for their daily sustenance.

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excommunication

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To punish an individual by depriving him of the sacraments and exclluding him from the fellowship of the church.

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interdict

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The suspension of public church services and of the administration of all sacraments (except baptism and extreme unction) in a given location.

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inquisition

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A special church court commissioned by the pope to stamp out heresy.

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Holy Roman Empire

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The name of the German empire because of its alliance with the Roman Catholic Church and its symbolic association with the empire of ancient Rome.

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shire

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Districts of England set up by Alfred the Great

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indictment

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accusation

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common law

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Uniform laws in England determined by justices

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witan

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Anglo-Saxon assembly of the great men of the kingdom

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curia regis

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The Great Council; an English feudal body composed of chief vassals; "king's council"

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tenants-in-chief

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Military followers who were feudal vassals

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"power of the purse"

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A representative body's power to approve all new taxes; a means of forcing the king to hear grievances

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Estates-General

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French representative body composed of clergy, nobility, and townspeople

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crusades

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Military expeditions from the west to free the east from the Muslims

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Cistercians

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One of the most influential of the reforming monastic orders

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College of Cardinals

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Created so that churchmen rathe than Roman nobles or German kings could choose the popes

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Concordat of Worms

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An agreement that recognized the right of the church to elect its own bishops and abbots and to invest them with spiritual authority

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Francis of Assisi

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The son of a rich merchant who was the founder of the Franciscan monastic order that emphasized service to one's fellow man.

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Dominic

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A Spanish nobleman who founded the Dominican monastic order that emphasized service to one's fellow man. He spent his life battling heresy.

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Innocent III

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Papal power and prestige reached its zenith under him. No pope before or after him exercised such extensive authority over both church and state. He likened his authority to the sun and that of kings to the moon.

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Henry the Fowler

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The first of the Saxon line of German kings

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Otto I

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Called "the Great", he became one of the strongest German kings and was crowned emperor over Germany and Italy by the pope

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Angles

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A germanic tribe from northern Europe that invaded Britain and established their own independent kingdoms and transformed "Roman" Britain into England or "Angle Land".

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Saxons

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A germanic tribe from northern Europe that invaded Britain and established their own independent kingdoms

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Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

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Traces the history of England from Roman times to Alfred the Great's day

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Domesday Book

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To determine the taxable resources that belonged to him as king, William commissioned a great survey. The finding of the survey were collected in a record known with this title.

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Richard I

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Became king of Englad at the death of his father Henry II. He was known as the "lion-hearted" and was an able warrior and an admired Crusader. He contributed little to the English crown and was in England only six months out of the ten years he served.

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Magna Carta

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Written in 1215, one of the most important documents in English history, it originally guaranteed feudal rights but later established the principle that the king's power is limited. The king is not above the law and can be removed for refusing to obey it.

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Parliament

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The English representative body consisting of two houses, the House of Commons and the House of Lords; had the "power of the purse."

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1095 - 1291

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Span of year when the Crusades took place. There were eight major crusades.

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Saladin

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Leader of the Muslims who captured Jerusalem during the time of the crusades.

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King's Crusade

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The third crusade had three of the most powerful kings of Europe leading it: Frederick Barbarossa of Germany, Philip Augustus of France and Richard the Lion-Hearted of England.

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Diverted Crusade

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The Venetians diverted the Crusaders to Constantinople, Venice's chief trade rival, where they pillaged the city.