Jan Nuis :Few remember or even know that Ireland had a shining heroic age and that it alone preserved the essence of scholarship and important historical tracts in the depths of the Dark Ages. Ireland was given by a puppet English pope to an English king in the latter 1100s. There was NEVER a shred of legitimacy in the subsequent occupation. And, for those interested in trivia, Henry the 2nd, after having received the illegitimate gift of Ireland from his sponsored and successful papal candidate Nicholas Breakspear, sent his prime military representative Strongbow to occupy Ireland on his behalf. Yes, the same Strongbow of cider fame. Nicholas Breakspear is better known to history as pope Adrian the 4th. The only Englishman to become pope. I once brought the inconvenient fact up about the legitimacy of the occupation with a Brit who had the audacity to say, Oh, why dont those Irish just behave? She then shut up like a clam because she knew that I was right. Here is the Wikipedia rendering of the events... In 1155, three years after the Synod of Kells, Adrian IV published the Papal Bull Laudabiliter, which was addressed to the Angevin King Henry II of England. He urged Henry to invade Ireland to bring its Celtic Christian[citation needed] Church under the Roman system and to conduct a general reform of governance and society throughout the island. The authenticity of this grant, the historian Edmund Curtis says, is one of the great questions of history. He states that the matter was discussed at a Royal Council at Winchester, but that Henrys mother, the Empress Matilda, had protested. In Ireland however, nothing seems to have been known of it, and no provision appears to have been made to defend against the prospect of Angevin Norman aggression, despite their westward expansion throughout England and Wales.[12] Ernest F. Henderson states that the existence of this Bull is doubted by many[13] while, in noting that its authenticity has been questioned without success, P. S. OHegarty suggests that the question is now purely an academic one. It is notable that decisions of Pope Alexander III, his successor, Pope Lucius III, and King Henry VIII in proclaiming the Crown of Ireland Act 1542 were predicated on this document.[14] The Normans did in fact invade Ireland, beginning with a small landing of Norman knights in 1169, followed by Henrys landing with a much larger force in 1171. . This is why we read history We need to know history to know how we got here, and how to correct the course.
Posted on: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 06:49:30 +0000
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