Identifier: medivalmodernh01myer (find matches)
Title: Mediæval and modern history
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Myers, P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness), 1846-1937
Subjects: Middle Ages History, Modern
Publisher: Boston, London, Ginn & company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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penance for his participation in the crimeby submitting to a flogging by the monks of Canterbury at themartyrs tomb. His humiliation recalls the humiliation ofHenry IV of Germany almost exactly a hundred years before.It was the English Canossa. 313. Loss of the English Possessions in France (i 202-1204).— The issue of the battle of Hastings, in 1066, made Williamof Normandy king of England. But we must bear in mindthat he still held his possessions in France as a fief from theFrench king, whose vassal he was. These continental lands,save for some short intervals, remained under the rule ofWilliams Norman successors in England. Then, when Henry,count of Anjou, came to the English throne as the first of thePlantagenets, these territories were greatly increased by theFrench possessions of that prince. The larger part of Henrysdominions, indeed, was in France, the whole of the westernhalf of the country being in his hands ; but for all of this heof course paid homage to the French king.
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Magna Cha7ta 7,6y As was inevitable, a feeling of intense jealousy sprang upbetween the two sovereigns. The French king was ever watch-ing for some pretext upon which he might deprive his rival ofhis possessions in France. The opportunity came when John,in 1199, succeeded Richard the Lion-hearted as king of Eng-land. That odious tyrant had not been long seated upon thethrone before his vassals of Poitou carried complaints of hismisconduct to Philip Augustus, then king of France. Philipsummoned John to appear and clear himself of the chargebefore his French peers. John refusing to do so, all the landshe held as fiefs of the French crown were declared forfeited(1202). Philip straightway invaded Normandy. In the fight-ing which followed John got possession of the person of hisnephew Arthur, who had laid claim to the English crown.The boy soon disappeared, and John was accused, and doubt-less justly, of having murdered him. Philip now ordered Johnto appear and clear himself of this new ch

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