The Church in england
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- Created on: 29-03-18 09:46
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- The Church in England
- role in society
- the church held large collections of legal documents
- Bishops were the heads of cathedrals
- each cathedral had control over all churches in a big area called a diocese
- they made sure local churches gave people the right messages about William (way of controlling society)
- each cathedral had control over all churches in a big area called a diocese
- Church leaders owed William knight service
- meant church had military role
- responsible for providing land for knights and ensuring they were available to serve the king when required
- meant church had military role
- a major landholder
- managed many estates and was closely involved in the economy
- church tenants owed the church land service and collected taxes to pay the king
- church administrators kept careful written records of what was owed
- church tenants owed the church land service and collected taxes to pay the king
- managed many estates and was closely involved in the economy
- government connection
- Bishops developed laws for the king and advised him on legal matters
- Bishops and abbots were literate and well- educated so were valued advisers to the king personally and in the royal council
- church clerks issued the king's writs and kept charge of the royal seal. many stated their careers as clerks to the king: king rewarded their service by these promotions
- most senior Church leaders (archbishops)sometimes acted as king's representatives in negotiations
- Archbishop Lanfranc acted as William's regent whilst he was in Normandy
- Roles of Stigand and Lanfranc
- Lanfranc only
- Head of the Church in England
- Reorganisation of the Church
- Reinforcement of Norman rule
- Religious reform - separate politics from religion
- Church rebuilding
- Stigand and Lanfranc
- Witan/royal council
- Legal expertise
- Ambassador/representatives of the king
- Defence of the realm
- King's secretarist and administration
- Tenants -in-chief - military and economic
- shire courts and hundreds courts
- administration of church
- King's household
- Advising the king
- Lanfranc only
- normanisation
- within 50 years of 1066, every English church, cathedral and most abbeys had been demolished and rebuilt in Norman style
- after 1070 only one remaining Anglo-Saxon bishop - Wulfstan
- Normanised church enhanced the king's power
- Lanfrancs reforms
- wanted to stamp out corruption among bishops and priests
- major problems in church were - simony, nepotism, pluralism and marriage - tried to deal with them
- monasteries - increased number of monks. important for monks to be well educated so can teach others
- Church courts - set up to deal with religious or moral crimes
- priests were also tried in church courts instead of kings courts
- rebuilt Canterbury cathedral - encouraged other bishops
- Norman cathedrals much larger and powerful, commanding buldings - symbolised power of new Norman overlords
- role in society
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