Innocent III

In our previous article we dwelt on the centuries- old contest between the papacy and the secular power for supremacy in England and here as it became flesh and blood in Henry II, the first king of the Plantagenets on the one hand and St. Thomas of Canterbury the underling of the pope, om the other. The theme of this article is this same struggle or contest as it was waged between Innocent III and all the secular powers of the papal patriarchate. It repeatedly has been pointed out in previous...