Religion made people obey rules and laws. Also, depending on the monarch you could be killed because of your religious views. As there was not much scientific evidence in those times, many answers were given on belief. Some popes led armies into battle and every country in Western Europe was Catholic. People were afraid of hell, so they paid the pope ‘indulgences’ which got them out of Purgatory.
He wasn’t suited to being a king at all mostly because of his primary interest lying within religion. Some even say that Henry would have suited becoming a priest or a monk and would have been much happier and successful in doing so. His deep love for religion made him a very forgiving man, this trait was commonly known to be a flaw in the personality of a king. Another major personality flaw was Henry’s lack of political skill which he needed to manage the nobles. Henry’s lack of political skill played a huge part in the feud between York and Somerset, which started in 1950 when Rouen and Normandy were lost to the French.
Plus, one of his supporters called them ‘a council of drunkards’ which put him in jail. The political opposition that they faced was a more important reason for Calvin’s expulsion in 1538. As in 1538 four new syndics were elected. Though these men were in favour of reform, they didn’t necessarily want Calvin’s model. The new syndics were pro-Berne which meant that they wanted to practice the same religion as the one in Berne.
Source 4 agrees with the view that Henry VIII’s foreign policy failed because he lacked the resources to fulfil his aims. From source 4 we can learn that Henry’s allies proved to be dishonest and untrustworthy as they were bribed to go against the treaty they had made with England, “His allies proved unscrupulous and unreliable. Maxamilian and Ferdinand were bribed by the French to disown their treaty obligations to England, leaving Henry to fight alone”. Henry VIII struggled to fight alone and “accepted the fact that royal finances could not support a repetition of the campaign of 1513. So instead of overthrowing the King of France, Henry made peace with him.
The church lost the trust and support of the people first because of the effects of the Crusades which resulted in many difficulties and new ideas and then was unable to provide the answers and services that the people expected during the times of famine and plague. Pope Urban II called for the Crusades during his speech at the council of Clermont. He promised the forgiveness of all sins for the warriors, spoke about atrocities committed by the Saracens against Christians and finally, convinced them that they had to take Jerusalem back because it was their holy city. The response by nobles to his exaggerated accounts was overwhelming. They sold their land to finance their journeys; left their manors unmanaged and took up the cause for faith .
Thus, the priest’s account was made public after Marat’s account, when the revolution came to an end – when differing opinions from the revolutionaries did not get one guillotined. 3. People didn’t call out against the king simply because they were scared they were next to be guillotined. France had guillotined their own king – there is no doubt they won’t guillotine another “traitor”. The power of Marat’s words and the revolutionaries’ influence on France were too great to speak or act out against – people who weren’t for the revolution were against it.
How far were Louis XVI's problems of his own making? The problems Louis XVI faced during his reign were partially due to his lack of leadership ability, his poor decisions and unwise actions. He created these problems by giving too much power to his nobles and hardly utilizing his power in his Divine Right. However, he did inherit an archaic system which was on the verge of collapse in Europe in general and the government of France had many inbuilt weaknesses already. He was faced with a tidal wave of new, enlightened ideas that was also fueled by France's involvement in the American war of independence.
The French government strictly controlled the colonies but made a little effort to encourage settlement. Some of the methods used by the Spanish people toward the Native Americans were harsh and brutal. Spanish Missionaries saw Native Americans as heathens to be converted to Christianity. Spanish soldiers view them as fit only for killing or subjugation“…the Indian majority had resented the harsh treatment and strange diseases that come with colonial contact.” (2) The French were friendlier toward the Native Americans and they had treated they more like a business partners then enemies. “…French forge many alliances with various Indian tribes to folicite the fur trade.
Some were given small sums of money, but many were unable to find work and became wandering beggars. The dissolution of the monasteries was probably the greatest act of official destruction in the history of Britain. Henry proved that his break with Rome was neither a religious nor a diplomatic disaster. He remained loyal to Catholic religious teaching, and executed Protestants who refused to accept it. He even made an alliance with Charles V of Spain against France.
The Pope put an interdict on John's lands which meant services couldn't be held in churches, and no weddings or burials could be done. The pope excommunicated King John and when he threatened to do the same to his soldiers, King John gave in. John was a good king in only very few aspects which were that he looked good, had a heir and he kept law and order. Yet in the rest of the jobs he was quite a bad king, for example he only supported the church when it fitted with what he wanted, he also didn't listen to the advice of the barons , another thing was that he collected very high taxes he also didn't lead his army to war and lost all of his wars. One of the important reasons was thing the King was meant to do was to consult his barons, but John only listened to a few favourite mercenary soldiers, not the barons.