Chapter 7 - The High Middle Ages: The Rise of European Empires and States

Magna Carta

The ________ set constraints on despotic conduct such as that of the Norman and Plantagenet rulers.

objective of feudal rule

The ________ has always been a balancing effort that handed authority to both parties.

English battle

The ________ in the High Middle Ages was to safeguard the rights of the favored few, not the king's power.

Canute

________ (r. 1016- 1035), the Dane who restored order and brought unity to England following the civil wars that had plagued the nation under the reign of the inept Ethelred II (r. 978- 1016), admired and followed his example.

Henry

________ brought nearly the whole west coast of France to the throne as a result of his father's inheritance (Anjou) and his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine (ca.

Pope Alexander III

Becket's subsequent assassination in 1170 and canonization by ________ in 1172 heightened widespread indignation of the king's harsh tactics.

1100 1135

Henry I (r. ________), William's son, died without a male heir, putting England into virtual anarchy until the accession of Henry II (r. 1154- 1189)

Magna Carta

________ was more of a political accident than a political genius.