After ending the interdict by submitting to the papacy in 1213, John turned to suppress domestic opposition with military force. He conducted a punitive tour of the north, forcing submission of northern barons who had refused service and coercing payment of scutage. The northern barons who resisted this tour became the core of the rebellion that produced Magna Carta two years later. John's heavy-handed military coercion in the north created his enemies.
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