One of its controversial provisions was resolved by the Compromise of Avranshes.
One of its controversial provisions was resolved by the Compromise of Avranshes. Codified to sanction the avitae consuetudines, all of its authors, including Richard de Luci, were excommunicated in the church of Vezelay on Whitsuntide. Condemned at Sens in Burgundy by Pope Alexander III, they were approved at the council of Westminster by the bishops. Promulgated in Witshire, they prohibited appeals to Roman Curia without the king's permission and they controversially allowed secular punishments of the clergy for ecclesiastical convictions. Composed of 16 articles and altered after the murder of Thomas A Becket, —for 10 points—, what was this Henry II set of guidelines for English church-state relations.
One of its controversial provisions was resolved by the Compromise of Avranshes.
{Constitutions of Clarendon}