John submits England to papal overlordship
1213
To lift a papal interdict and the threat of a French invasion, King John knelt before a papal legate and surrendered his kingdom to the pope, receiving it back as a fief in exchange for an annual tribute. The move infuriated his barons and emboldened Innocent III. England would remain technically a papal vassal until the Reformation, though few kings took the arrangement seriously.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.