Question

Which English monarch is credited with ending the use of "trial by ordeal to determine a defendant's guilt?

A) Mary I
B) Henry II
C) Henry VII
D)Alfred the Great

Answer 1

B) Henry II

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Answer 2

Step-by-step explanation:

None of the above.

Sources say Henry II was indeed skeptical about the trial by ordeal, sometimes even sending in exile those who were cleared by the ordeal.

However, it was Herny III who put the end of the practice. On 26 . of January in 1219. he issued an edict that ended trail by the ordeal and changed the process to the trial by petty jury.