The Pope's Decision to Rule England

John is trapped in england. philip basically runs the continent um and john decides that he's going to try to rule this The last little bit of this country that he has which is england He's a terrible king he sells justice so if you have enough money you can get out of crimes and everybody sort of hates him. There was a lunar eclipse in 1208 and everyone was like Oh, I think that's bad. So immediately john kicks out all the bishops of england and the pope Cancels every religious activity and excommunicates john. That meant there was no mass If you wanted to get married you people got married in the doorways of churches not in churches.