what was king louis xiv religion?
Catholicism
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 Historical analysis of James II has been somewhat revised since Whig historians , led by Lord Macaulay , cast James as a cruel absolutist and his reign as " tyranny which approached to insanity " . Subsequent scholars , such as G. M. Trevelyan ( Macaulay 's great @-@ nephew ) and David Ogg , while more balanced than Macaulay , still characterised James as a tyrant , his attempts at religious tolerance as a fraud , and his reign as an aberration in the course of British history . In 1892 , A. W. Ward wrote for the Dictionary of National Biography that James was " obviously a political and religious bigot " , although never devoid of " a vein of patriotic sentiment " ; " his conversion to the church of Rome made the emancipation of his fellow @-@ catholics in the first instance , and the recovery of England for catholicism in the second , the governing objects of his policy . " 

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 Louis XIV , King of France 

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 The current position of the Roman Catholic Church is that the medieval persecution of the Knights Templar was unjust , that nothing was inherently wrong with the order or its rule , and that Pope Clement was pressed into his actions by the magnitude of the public scandal and by the dominating influence of King Philip IV , who was Clement 's relative . 

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 During the late 16th century , Catholics made several assassination attempts against Protestant rulers in Europe and in England , including plans to poison Elizabeth I. The Jesuit Juan de Mariana 's 1598 On Kings and the Education of Kings explicitly justified the assassination of the French king Henry III — who had been stabbed to death by a Catholic fanatic in 1589 — and until the 1620s , some English Catholics believed that regicide was justifiable to remove tyrants from power . Much of the " rather nervous " James I 's political writing was " concerned with the threat of Catholic assassination and refutation of the [ Catholic ] argument that ' faith did not need to be kept with heretics ' " . 

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 Such flattering sentiments had even been expressed during Clement 's lifetime . In 1250 , the General Chapter of the Dominican Order met in London , and decreed that : 
