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Royal touch

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Sacred power of the king to cure disease, saints don't decay, tombs smell like flowers

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First royal Hungarian saint and king. Responsible for Christian conversion of Hungary and a militant opponent of paganism

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Son of King Louis VI Married Eleanor of Aquitane then divorced because no male heir (some excuse about being related) Abbot Suger was his counselor

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Disease cured by holy touch, skin disease

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An alliance formed in 1167, supported by the Pope, to counter the attempts by Holy Roman Emperor over Kingdom of Italy

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Arch Bishop of Canterbury until his murder in 1170. Becomes saint and martyr. Conflict with Henry II

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Sylvester I baptized Constantine made Christianity HUGE

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1166 act of Henry II of England that began the transformation of English law from such systems for deciding the prevailing party in a case, especially felonies, as trial by ordeal or trial by battle or trial by compurgation to an evidentiary model, in which evidence, inspection, and inquiry was made by laymen, knights or ordinary freemen, under oath

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Was an agreement between Pope Calixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V on September 23, 1122 near the city of Worms. It brought to an end the first phase of the power struggle between the Papacy and the Holy Roman Emperors

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was King of England from 6 July 1189 until 1199, most of his life was spent crusading. Son of Henry II

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King of France 1180 to 1223. - expelled John from Normandy - Reformed the French Institutions and increased the importance of the royal court. Legally justified John I's (son of Richard I) expulsion.

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The investiture crisis, argued with Henry IV

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Daughter of King Henry I of England. Succeeded the throne after the wreck of the white ship. She married Henry V. Because after Henry 1's sons died Matilda his daughter was the only one left, Steven of Bloius (grandson of William the conquerors took the throne instead of Matilda led to the anarchy. Steven handed back the throne to Matilda's son Henry II of England.

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(959-975) an ineffectual ruler who failed to prevent the Danes from overrunning England. Son of King Edgar. Fought with brother over throne got it after brothers death. Led to a lack of unity among English, which resulted in successful danish takeover by King Sweyn I in 1013. Who died a year later and Was succeeded by Ethelred forced to accept concessions. Father of Edward the Confessor. L

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The Constitutions of Clarendon were a set of legislative procedures passed by Henry II of England in 1164. The Constitutions were composed of 16 articles and represent an attempt to restrict ecclesiastical privileges and curb the power of the Church courts and the extent of Papal authority in England.

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The Peace of Constance of 1183 was signed in the city of Konstanz by the Hohenstaufen emperor Frederick Barbarossa and representatives of the Italian Lombard League. With the Peace of Constance, Holy Roman emperor Frederick I Barbarossa officially promised to leave the member cities of the Lombard League alone. Frederick was this accommodating because he had lost the Battle of Legnano in 1176.

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Wanted to eliminate concubinage (clerical marriage), simony (buying and selling of ecclesiastical offices), and lay investiture (conferment of an ecclesiastical office by a lay ruler).

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(July 27, 1214), battle that gave a decisive victory to the French king Philip II Augustus over an international coalition of the Holy Roman emperor Otto IV, King John of England, and the French vassals--Ferdinand (Ferrand) of Portugal, count of Flanders, and Renaud (Raynald) of Dammartin, count of Boulogne. The victory enhanced the power and the prestige of the French monarchy in France and in the rest of Europe.

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Previously married to Louis VII, marries Henry II, giving Aquitaine to England she was married to Louis VII, King of France. During the Second Crusade, her relationship with her husband soured, and in 1152, they officially divorced. Louis VII responsible for losing a lot of land in Aquitaine b/c of his divorce

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Established by the Assize of Clarendon by Henry II in 1166 An action to recover lands of which the plaintiff had been disseised, or dispossessed. Rather than dealing with the issue of lawful possession, it simply asked whether a dispossession had taken place, in which case the property was restored to the plaintiff, and the question of true ownership was dealt with later.

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Radical religious reformer noted for his outspoken criticism of clerical wealth and corruption and for his strenuous opposition to the temporal power of the popes. He was prior of the monastery at Brescia, where in 1137 he participated in a popular revolt against the government of Bishop Manfred. His proposals for reforming the clergy and for ending the church’s temporal powers caused him to be condemned as a schismatic by Pope Innocent II in 1139.

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Barborossa made peace with Pope Alexander III in 1183, cities in the kingdom of northern Italy retained several regal official jurisdictions. Must take oath of Feelty to the Holy Roman Emperor. Barborossa would then leave the lumbar league alone