Popes have a long history of becoming entangled in Scottish politics 👇
was settled “the English way” but it’s not the first time the Bishop of Rome has intervened in constitutional politics in Great Britain.
King John was released from the Tower of London into the custody of Boniface and was eventually allowed to leave the Pope’s supervision to live out the rest of his life in Picardy, northern France. The entire country was put under a papal interdict in 1317 because Bruce rejected the Pope’s offer to mediate the conflict between Scotland and England – barring Scots from public religious rituals such as receiving Holy Communion.He was received back into the church by Pope John XXII, the recipient of the Declaration of Arbroath which we’ll come onto in a moment, in 1328.
The declaration resulted in John XXII urging Edward II to make peace with the Scots – which he ignored – but the Pope stopped short of recognising the still-excommunicated Robert the Bruce as King of Scots.After the first Scottish War of Independence, Rome intervened in the 1332-1357 war through the French, who had formed the Auld Alliance with Scotland by that point.
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