1) The Canon Law was a form of church justice that dealt with matters like marriage and religious practices. The church created a court to try presumed violators, excommunication and inverdict were two of the hardest punishments. Excommunication was used against political rulers, it banished them from the church and took away the king's vassels from there servitude to him. Inverdict denied religious services in the king's lands. Inverdict was a powerful tool for the pope against christain kings.
2) If a king were to violate the Canon Law he would have lost a form of ally. Religion was well relied on during this time that kings ruled, without the church on the king's side he would have been denied salvation. The king needed to be assured that they wouldnt become damned so they intrusted alot of belief in the church.
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