After much troubled thinking, Philip IV finally came up with a good way to not only ensure that the church still existed, but also to be under his control. But what kind of way was it?

What? Let’s take a look:

At this time, Philip IV used absolute force and even defeated the pope's prestige among the top leaders of various countries. This helped a French bishop to become the pope, namely Clement.

Fifth. But Clement V was a Frenchman, and he was also a descendant of Philip IV, so everything would only obey the orders of Philip IV. From here, it is not difficult to see that the Christian church at this time changed again.

Yes, because the Pope now seeks the interests of the French people, that is, the interests of Philip IV, the French king.

We can also understand this matter from another aspect. We can think that the current Clement V is actually just a puppet of Philip IV. What is even more outrageous is that although Clement V is a

The Pope, but Philip IV was worried that someone was trying to kill the Pope, so he let Clayton V live in France and never go to the church where the Pope lived in Rome. Even later, after thinking about it, Philip IV simply decided to send Rome to Rome

The Holy See was moved directly to Avignon, a small city in southern France, by order of the Pope.

From then on, the era when the Holy See had always been above the king was gone forever. The control of the Holy See, or we can say that the Christian world, over various European countries completely changed, and it completely became a kind of divine right in France. Later we

Historians in human history call the seven popes who lived in Avignon for many years the Prisoner of Avignon.

Okay, we have just discovered that the extremely large and even supreme Christian church world has completely collapsed. This is not to blame others, it is just that everyone in the church likes huge amounts of wealth, which has led to the collapse of various countries.

The top leaders were dissatisfied, and were finally defeated by Philip IV in this way. The papal world also collapsed. The once powerful church world became history in the past.

We have completely understood the development of the papal power to great power and finally its complete collapse. Although we have not mentioned more battles, we will make up for them later, because there are also very large civil wars within the church.

, the main reason is that it can be said that the uneven distribution of spoils is not caused by differences in beliefs at all. In fact, it has little to do with differences in beliefs. We will conduct a more thorough supplementary analysis together later.

Now let's take a look at the architectural and social makeup of this era to understand how we humans have evolved to this day, apart from the church in the spiritual world and even the necessary wars.

First, let’s start with the country’s lords, vassals and knights:

Let's push the history back a little. We have also carefully analyzed the collapse of the Western Roman Empire before. It was due to the internal disharmony caused by the corruption of the high-level officials. Then the civilians suffered miserably, and then they were invaded by foreign enemies, and finally split.

It has become many small countries, but because these small countries do not have the cultural system of high civilization, they all copy the cultural system of the Roman Empire, and even copy the Christian church. However, these countries have the cultural system of the Roman Empire.

Very big changes have still been made. The main factor is that the kings of each country have to implement measures that are convenient for their own management. We can also call this process the advancement and development of civilization.

Of course, we can also say that although the politics, economy, and culture of the various small countries based on the bloody cruelty of force in the Western Roman Empire were very backward, for this period, their high-level leaders were not very corrupt.

, so the military power is very powerful, so the leaders of these foreign tribes also transformed into emperors and kings.

However, after these emperors and kings copied the culture of the Roman Empire, they still needed a set of management strategies that were convenient for them. As we have said before, these emperors and kings appeared and granted large tracts of their land to dukes and marquises.

, earls and other relatively large feudal lords, or generals who have made great achievements, use this method to exchange for their loyalty. This is not a centralized system at all, so we must understand it carefully.

The enfeoffed land is called: fief. These large feudal lords and generals can also entrust their own enfeoffed land as fief and then entrust it to viscounts, barons and other medium-sized feudal lords, or they can

You can also entrust your own retainers, and you can even entrust them to generals, or even to the lowest feudal lords and knights. In short, this system is mainly to exchange loyalty.

Therefore, everyone who is entrusted with land is a vassal, and everyone who is entrusted with land is a vassal of the person who is entrusted with land. Then the fief was originally only given to the vassal himself, and after his death, the fief will be returned to him.

To the vassal. But later, after the vassal died, his children could also inherit the fief. It was this system that led to the formation of a pyramid structure system in Europe during this period. Standing at the top of this pyramid was the emperor.

, the second level is the nobles or bishops directly entrusted by the emperor, the third level is the knights, officials, citizens and craftsmen, the fourth level is the peasants, and the last level, which is the bottom level of the pyramid, is the serfs, that is,

slave.

When receiving a title, the vassal and the vassal must hold a very grand enfeoffment ceremony. At this time, the vassal needs to kneel in front of the lord, put his hands clasped in the hands of the lord, and swear: Your enemy is my enemy.

Your friend is my friend. When you need me, I am willing to be loyal and available at any time. Then the lord will give the vassal a small piece of soil, branches or thatch. Anyway, it is a symbolic enfeoffment of the land.

After being granted a title, the vassal must perform corresponding obligations. For example, if the lord goes to war, the vassal must send troops to help, usually no more than forty days a year. If the lord is captured during the war, the vassal will

A ransom must be paid. When the lord's eldest daughter gets married, or when the eldest son performs a knighthood ceremony, the vassal also has to pay a sum of money, called a donation. The vassal also has to attend the lord's court to help the lord resolve disputes, etc.

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Among these first-level vassals, they are only loyal to the lord who directly entrusts them with land. When facing the lord at the upper level, they actually only have a nominal obligation to obey. Therefore, these upper-level vassals

The feudal lord cannot directly order or command them. This title is: the vassal of my vassal, which is not my vassal at all.

We have also said before that among all the vassals, knights have the lowest status and the largest number. As for the descendants of feudal lords, they must receive very strict knight education since childhood. In order to become a true knight

To become a knight, you must go through the page boy, that is, after the age of seven, then the squire, that is, after the age of fourteen, and then you can reach the knight, that is, after the age of twenty-one. These are the three stages of knight education.

In the page boy stage, feudal lords would send their own children to the powerful lord's castle to work as page boys and learn some knightly etiquette and cultural knowledge from the lord's wife or daughter.

After entering the retinue stage, they will become the master's followers, which can also be said to be preliminary knights. They mainly learn riding, swordsmanship, spear throwing, hunting, swimming, poetry reciting and chess playing. These are called the Seven Knights.

Skills. If there is a need to fight, they need to follow their master on the expedition and be responsible for protecting him.

After the retinue stage is over, you must go through the promotion ceremony to become a real knight. At this time, the medieval promotion ceremony usually takes place on religious festivals, and in special times it may also be performed directly on the battlefield. The knight's promotion ceremony

Generally, it can be divided into three types. The first is the secular type, where the host is a monarch or a noble, and the location is usually in a palace or a castle. The second is the religious type, where the host is usually the pope or bishop or even a clergyman.

The location must be in the church. The third type is a mixture of secular and religious. The host is usually a monarch or a noble, while the clergy performs religious activities such as prayers or masses on the side. The location is usually in a palace, castle or

It's held in a church.

In the entire ceremony, the sword-giving ceremony is the most important and the core ceremony. The prospective knight must bathe, confess, pray, swear an oath, wear an armor, helmet, and kick spurs, and then receive the sword that symbolizes the knight's function.

The Lord will tap the knight lightly on the shoulder with his sword, and then tell him the basic rules of knighthood, so that he can obtain the title of knight. Finally, the new knights will ride in the square, holding spears and stabbing

target and celebrate with an impromptu joust.

In this medieval period, knights, as vassals of high-ranking nobles, must swear allegiance and fulfill their obligations to them. At the same time, as the master of his own territory, he must also protect the serfs who are attached to him. It is not difficult to see from here that this kind of knight

The whole core of the ceremony is to swear allegiance and fulfill obligations to his lord, and finally get the benefits from the lord, that is, land. Anyway, we can understand the entire core meaning in this way.

Just like in our modern era, we use people's money to eliminate disasters for others.
Chapter completed!