To some extent, I agree with this statement as John had many faults such as, he was a bad fighter and the people of medieval England liked their kings to be great warriors. He lost all of the land in France and some sources written by barons say that it was because he was idle and was not bothering to fight. He was also over taxing the barons which obviously was not sensible as the barons in medieval times had a lot of power. If they inherited land, king John would get a large share of it, or if they didn’t want to fight in a battle, they would have to pay a large amount of money to the king. However I also disagree with this statement for as many reasons as I agree with it, one being that Johns brother was Richard the Lion Heart.
As he was the king, he had thought that he had the power to make the Scots use English prayer books. The scots were so furious that they decided to fight Charles I instead. This also made him unpopular to the scots as well as the people of England. When the scots had defeated him Charles had to pay lots of tax money which he couldn’t afford. So, Charles had to recall parliament, as only tax voted by parliament got rid of the scots.
More importantly, though, this caused great strain on the country and Charles couldn’t find the necessary funding to finance the wars, which lead to him implementing the Forced Loan on December 1627. This meant that people were pressured by ‘commissioners’ to ‘lend’ their money. It caused considerable ill-feeling among Parliament as it was technically a parliamentary taxation but they had not sanctioned it. Lord Chief Crew refused to pay the loan saying it was not legal; he was dismissed and other ‘refusers’ were arrested and imprisoned. As a result seventy six people including Sir Wentworth and other prominent MPs were imprisoned for refusing to pay.
The Byzantine Empire, much like the Roman Empire, faced a formidable array of external enemies. However, it was largely internal decay which destroyed both empires. The political and economic stability of the empire by 1000 A.D. led to two lines of development which combined to trigger a pair of interlocking feedback cycles that, in turn, eventually wrecked the empire. First of all, there was the free peasantry upon which the government depended for taxes and recruits. When the empire had been under constant attack, land had been a poor investment.
They testified that at first, “when the English first came the king’s father was a great man” (58), referring to Massasoit. However, he was followed by a series of cruel rulers. The English constantly ripped them off in trades and “led them into drunkenness” (58), causing some Indians to get violent and to give the English more reason to persecute them. This cycle of injustice towards the Indians led to Rhode Island’s slow demise. They chose to dominate the Indians instead of working with
He was also rumoured to be having sexual relationships which other men. Another example is Pope Leo X who committed the abuse, simony, from the sale of indulgences to improve St Peter’s Church in Rome, but a lot of this money went on military campaigns. Many of the Popes needed large amounts of taxes to fund their lifestyles and their demands became a matter of concern as the Pope was meant to be someone who could lead the people to salvation. This caused resentment among Christians especially those in Germany. The people of Germany already resented the papacy because it exploited Germany economically as it was one of the richest, most urbanised and educated parts of Europe, extracting the largest sums from the ruling families.
Some parts, particularly Northern France where much of the fighting was taking place, suffered terribly from war however in other regions escape the worst of the fighting. Despite this, after 1584, most of France was affected; trade was disrupted and the Dutch seized this opportunity to take advantage of France’s vulnerable position, thus leaving France in a dire financial position, not helped by the crippling costs of wars and the royal expenses. With the rising food prices and economic growth at a standstill there was widespread adversity. Along with the destruction left behind by passing soldiers, who confiscated crops and raided villages and pressed their young men into military service, it is little wonder that the peasants suffered so much. The people of France had had enough.
Crusades essay The Crusades, the Great Schism, and the Hundred Year War all contributed to the downfall of the Middle Ages or the Dark ages in a very big way. They were all very expensive, they all had a lot of soldiers and people killed, and they all got the empires and countries nowhere. They were all dumb things that selfish kings caused to get more wealth. The corrupt church had a big part in this as well. The church was cause for some of this to because people killed and went to war because they felt it was their duty to the church.
Buckingham was also largely resented in Parliament due to his wealth and awful foreign policy. They called him ‘the cause of all our miseries’. Even though there were other reasons such as religion historians such as Conrad Russell agree that finance was the most prominent reason for the bad relationship. Finance was the cause to several problems during Charles’s reign. At the start of which his first Parliament of 1625 offered him two subsidies to demonstrate their loyalty however Charles asked for more which was unprecedented.
Essex’s humiliation also played a great part in causing the rebellion as he faced dismissals from court, house arrest and a slap from Queen Elizabeth I. By 1600 Essex was broke and no longer a favourite of the Queen, he had been humiliated greatly through military losses and loss of status and was constantly being outmanoeuvred by the Cecil faction who, in the Essex faction’s eyes was stealing their place in court. Factional reasons were the main cause of the Essex rebellion because there was a constant rivalry between the Essex faction and the Cecil faction. The Cecil faction only joined court in 1547(?) under Edward Seymour as Duke of Somerset whereas the Essex faction had been there for many more generations and this angered them greatly this is because the Cecil faction were seen to be new money, meaning that they had not come from a long line of wealth, unlike the Essex faction.