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  • Religious Motivation in the Biography of Hubert De Burgh

  • Fred A. Cazel, Jr
  • Journal:
    Studies in Church History / Volume 15 / 1978
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    21 March 2016, pp. 109-119
    Print publication:
    1978

  • Hubert de Burgh was the most powerful man in England during the minority of Henry III, the real ruler of England for most of the decade of the 1220s. In his climb to power, in his exercise of it, and perhaps most of all, in his sudden disgrace and persecution, his biography is dramatic and compelling. One of the factors in his rise and fall was the religious motivation for his acts, a factor which is all too often neglected in modern biography and history. No one doubts that Hubert de Burgh was a Christian, though his lord, king John, flirted with disbelief; but no one has really considered what effects Hubert’s Christianity may have had upon his actions. Nor how strong it was by comparison with other motivations.