Medival times Flashcards
how did war cause the magna carta
john was consnatly fighting the french foor land and lost huge amounts of the land he started with incl normandy, huge contrast to his lionheart brother
economy as a factor of magna carta
john continually raised the taxes in order to afford fighting the french but they felt useless as he kept losing land
he would fine people thousands to pay mercinaries in france
he introduced his tax, scutage which he made barons and knights pay instead of going to war themselves, he called for it eleven times
religion as a factor of magna carta
john didnt like the popes archbishop and tried to stop him so the pope banned all church services in england for five years- as a very reliious country people resented him for this
the pope said ti was not a sin to kill the king
role of indiv as a factor of magna carta
johns arbutrary rules meant random taxes and untrialled senteces, people turned to barons for help
where and when was the magna carta
in 1215 the barons marched on london unhappy with johns arbutrary rule and he met them at runnymeded
main points of the magna carta
everyone had the right to a fair triall
taxes had to be areed on and couldnt be randomly increased
a pannel of 25 barons would make sure he stuck to it
short term effects of the magna carta
john didnt follow it and they went back to war with the barons trying to crown the french prince Louis, he died shortly after so his young son was accepted as king. in 1225 his son henry resigned
long term effects of magna carta
its an early case of a king abiding to his subjects laws
remains a symbol of freedom
some of the clauses eg fair trial is still used in law today
it was quoted historically in the ameican constitution and the english civil war as well as intertionally in fight for rights in mexico and the philapines
only applied to the rich which showed the erasure of the poor at the time
what was simon de monforts conflict about
he was the kings brother in law and baron who had a very up and down relationship with the king
he was very moral and christian so disagreed with henrys abrutatry ruling
on a personal level he wanted power for himself and not the tight circle of ‘aliens’ in the kings circle
he wasnt getting any of henrys family funds
he was embararased by the time henry put him on trial
significance of simon de monforts actions
first time the ideas of commoners had impacted politics as he summoned them to express their feelings
edward I set up a model parliment under simons ideas
it scared future kings out of disobeying the magna carta
inspired democratic movements to come
policial/ social causes of second barons war
henry was very close with the enemy french, had many advisors
rejected the magna carta based provisons of oxford which asked for a parliment of barons
he employed a very small circle of royalists and all other citizens were excluded
henry was extravagant and ruled in an arbuttary manner
war factor of the second barons war
henry lost two large french wars
economy factor of the 2nd baons war
like john, henry raised the taxes on a poor country so he could fight wars and no morale was raised aas he cpnstantly lost them
henry was consantaly short on money
political cause of the peasents revolt
the new king was young and many assumed he would be easily receptable to change
economic causes of the peasents revolt
as the black death killed half of britain labourers were in much higher demand, as was the prices people wuld pay for peasents- but the landowners werent happy and the gov appeased them by lowering the allowed wage to pre black death.
Sumptuary laws, regulated clothes and food of the poor
also, they introduced the tax poll which meant that peasents and nobelemn had to pay the same tax which was very unfair- even when lessened it was still inproportionate to their wages
