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Unlike the massively powerful kings of the early modern era (ie: Louis XIV), Medieval kings were usually quite limited in authority. Nobles held much of the wealth and owned the most land. The Magna Carta is a classic example of the nobles successfully limiting the powers of the king in England, and while it is viewed as a triumph today for the limitation of power it served as an impediment to centralization and progress in its own time. Nobles and Kings (along with the church) represented the only powerful classes of Europe during the Middle Ages, naturally putting them at odds with one another.

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