Etienne Langton

Etienne Langton (v. 1155 - 1228), is an intellectual, exégète celebrates, theologist, prestigious preacher, prelate, English cardinal and liturgical poet

History

Student in Paris where he became the friend of the cardinal of Conti, future pope under the name of Innocent III, then professor in Paris in 1180.

In 1205, to died of the archbishop of Canterbury, the pope Innocent III devotes the English theologist, to succeed the late one.

Jean without Ground, then king d' Angleterre, refuses the entry in England de Langton because it wishes to see reaching this load his friend John of Gray, bishop of Norwich.

Etienne Langton exiles himself in France with the abbey of Pontigny where it passes most of his six years of exile.

March 23rd, 1208, Innocent III throws the interdict on the kingdom, thus paralyzing all the religious life of the country. It excommunicates the king later some month. King Jean counteracts by confiscating the goods of the clergy. Deprived of religious service, the kingdom is at the edge of the revolt. In May 1213, the king is obliged to subject to one humiliating capitulation.

Etienne Langton is then allowed as archbishop.

Jean without Ground must pay compensations for the clergy and to recognize itself vassal of the pope while agreeing to pour a tribute of thousand marks per annum to him is approximately one sixtieth direct taxes of the kingdom.

The fifteen years in England until its death (1228) will be difficult but fertile. In particular, it will contribute to the reconciliation of the English royalty with papacy and to the development of the " Large Charter " (1215) which will mark all the evolution of the English political life and which appears among the precursors of our declaration of the human rights.

Theology

Etienne Langton divides the Bible into chapters; the verses do not exist yet.

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