Pope Martin IV

friends, or loved ones without a license from the master. Being a knight meant having to serve devotional exercises. They also had to fast, pray, and have constant attendance at mass, vespers, and other church services. Templar knights fought for the pope and the king. They took vows to the church and the country. One vow they took is “To put on the armour of obedience and associate themselves with piety and humility for the defense of the Holy Catholic Church.” Some of the vows to be sworn into…

humanity’s fall from grace and the Pope and church oversees all. The Middle Ages lasted from 500 A.D to 1500 A.D and consisted of war, famine, plague, death, rebellion and social and political change. The Reformation of the Church led by Martin Luther impacted society’s belief about the main source of knowledge from the church to science and the Reformation made people's opinions develop and be known and allowed them to voice what they think. The 95 Theses written by Martin Luther was the…

pro-papal, supportive of the pope, or a pro-imperial, supportive of military force, attitude ("The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica"). Disagreements between various members of the Guelph Party forced the party to split into two smaller factions: the Whites, “the moderate but 'disaffected faction'”, and the Blacks, “the 'pure papal extreme faction'”. In other words, the Whites were more on the fence of who they were loyal for and the Blacks were strictly supporters of the Pope ("Guelphs and…

During the 15th and 16th centuries, human society underwent a full-blown transformation on all aspects of itself, and even on the ones who constituted it. In the centuries past, religion was the center point of society, thinking, art, and conflict; this was very present during the Middle Ages, in which Catholicism was the center of human activity. During these dark times, people would rely on Catholicism for anything, all bad things were punishments of god, and the good things were gifts. This…

buy their deceased loved ones way out too. The treasury of merit was a general account that housed the good works of Jesus and other higher beings. These good works could be shifted around to help people’s souls into heaven if they donated money; the Pope had control over this. With the money collected from selling indulgences, the new St. Peter’s Basilica was built. Despite the several negatives of the church having immense wealth, it did use it positively by giving large sums to…

With the fall of Rome in 476 CE, the Roman Catholic Church emerged and began its course to spread the word of God throughout Europe. Throughout the Middle Ages one of the most dominant religions the world has ever seen which was the Roman Catholic Church, played an integral role in the lives of everyday people. In these times, the Church was much more than a mere religious organization, instead playing a hand in hand role in many aspects of daily life as well as playing a key role in many…

St. John Rigby was one of the forty martyrs of England who was canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1970. St. John was born somewhere close to Wigan, England and had friendly relations with the church. When St. John admitted that he was a Catholic, the people didn't seem to like it and he was placed in a nearby prison called Newgate. On June 21, he was hanged at a place called Southwark. St. John was given two chances to change his word but refused and is now a martyr. The feast day of St. John Rigby is…

“The Church believed that the reason for Pope Gregory IX's creation of the Inquisition was to bring order and legality to the process of dealing with heresy, since there had been tendencies in the mobs of townspeople to burn alleged heretics without much of a trial”. The inquisition started in…

in the day kings and emperors were actually not the only rulers that consolidated their power in the high Middle Ages; popes also did, and that was through a series of measures that would make the church more independent of secular control. “Under the leadership of a series of reforming popes in the eleventh century, the church tries to end this practice” (p.267). It was the popes’ efforts that were sometimes challenged by the medieval kings and emperors, in which the wealth of the church came…

Charlemagne or Charles the Great is most famous ruler of the Middle Ages. He lived ca 742-814 and ruled over the Frankish kingdom which covered Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and a part of western Germany. He went on to conquer much of western Europe, all under a policy of friendship and cooperation with the Christian Church. He therefore greatly contributed to the expansion of the Christian Church’s power. He also introduced the basis of Feudalism and revived the political and…