Ch 10 Flashcards
Simon de Montfort
Thought Henry 111 expenditures too great and revolted, won but lost power, got a group who signed m.c. And reps from towns to secure loyalty and inform public. Married h111 sister
Henry 111
R. 1216-1272
Forced to reissue Magna Carta and have a regent rep. Him at parliament, bad relations with barons, only raise taxes w/parliament, tried to regain Normandy and failed, lots of costly and expensive wars, barons revolted but got it back
Edward 1
R.1272-1307
Got welsh, Scotland, diplomatic war with France, breach with church, did statutes of realm and model parliament, respected bold fighter and crusader
Model parliament
Edward 1 2 houses:
House of Lords: tenants in chief, upper nobility, bishops, powerful abbots
House of Commons: 2 knights from every shore and 2 reps of town
Power of the purse
Edward had reps elected from towns grant him full power to tax b/c Magna Carta way of getting $ for war didnt work, H of C had the power, had to consent to taxes for a town
Statutes of realm
Edward 1 wanted to make law more flexible, set precedent for only changing law by legislation not admin decision, restricted nobility and clergy’s rights, limited money bishops could send to Rome, new emphasis on securing consent of parliament
Philip IV, the fair
R. 1285-1314 French
War 1294-1302 to get England off continent but fr relied on eng for wool and so towns revolted, debatable if capable or let others do stuff for him, to get $ for war he imprisoned merchants, got pope to declare knights heretics, confiscated Jewish property, taxes from church, estates general
Estates general
3 houses 1. Nobility 2. Clergy 3. Commoners (urban middle class)
Granted taxes and went with kings policies, Philip had them meet to go against boniface
Interregnum
Period in which state has no ruler
Germany went through it til Habsburg
Rudolph Habsburg
R. 1273-1291
Elected to end interregnum bc he was minor noble with isolated lands near alps, limited the outlawry of knights acting as tyrants, couldn’t tke on nobles, took Austria and kept it for family so got kicked out and Lux replaced, lost 3 Swiss cantons,
Luxembourgs
Elected 1308 after habsburgs, used power to gain family holdings, Charles IV made golden bull
Charles IV
R. 1346-1378 Luxembourg
Made golden bull
Golden bull
To stabilize process of electing emperor, 7 electors (3 ecclesiastics and 4 nobles)
Meet 1 month after king dies and elect new one
Michael VIII Palaeologus
R. 1216-1282 Nicean Empire
Recaptured Constantinople bc neither side would cross river, subdued Bulgarian empire by marrying females off , left empire Byzantine, not good legacy
Balkanization
In 20th c. It’s splitting territory up, Byzantine emperors often settled various tribes
Mongols
Turkic region, nomadic tribes under chief, amassed largest empire ever known, power over China, Afghanistan, Persia, Caucasus, Beijing, Slavs. Got part of Russia est Golden Horde
Golden Horde
Capital of a division of Mongol, maintained suzerainty over lands but princes got to rule them and had to give money to them
Genghis khan
Chief of monols, inflexible emperor, got largest empire
Batu
Grandson of genghis, got Poland, Hungary and Russia
Roger bacon
1214-94 English Franciscan
Philosophy to investigate natural laws, founder of western scientific writing, argued knowledge can be verified only be ecperimental science (hypothesis and test)
William Ockham
1285-1349 English Franciscan
Philosophy to investigate natural law, didnt attack aquinas but said Christian faith can’t be proved, observation for heaven and earth
Ockham’s razor
Guiding principle in logical argument, what can be explained by fewer principles is explained needlessly by more. Simplicity of argument
St. Bona venture
1221-1274
Contemporary of Thomas aquinas, used intuited principles to prove God, emphasized spiritual exercises, see God in creaturs, contemplation leads to revelation in God’d existence