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Why was it inevitable that church and state should come into conflict in the twelfth century england?

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Why was it inevitable that church and state should come into conflict in the twelfth century england?

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Your question is specifically about the 12th century, so can not involve either King James or Henry VIII. In the early and middle parts of the century there was little conflict at all between the King and the Church; it was traditional for the king to appoint certain Church officials (bishops and archbishops), but the conflict came when the king attempted to appoint abbots against the wishes of the monastic communities, who saw it as their right. Monks had traditionally elected their abbots from among their own number. Only when Henry II appointed Thomas Becket to the Archbishopric of Canterbury was there a significant conflict – the king assumed that as his personally chosen appointee, Becket would support him and be a kind of puppet official. Becket surprised everyone (even himself) by changing his character completely and filling the post with a religious fervour seldom witnessed before. Becket refused to back down to Henry in matters of subsequent Church appointments and the discip

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