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>King John accepted it very openly because his own barons wanted to depose him and offer the English crown to the King of France, and the Pope was instrumental in stopping this, again as the nominal boss of the King of France.
You were doing well until this point. The Roman Pope was meddling in England and wanted to encourage the nobility to rebel against John, a weaker king who had lost a bunch of land to France. This was the policy of the Roman government at the time, just as had been done against the HRE/German Emperor during the Investiture Controversy.

The Pope in Rome had been the one to give the French King "permission" to invade England in the first place, just as he had given Simon de Montfort the Elder the invitation to steal Toulouse from the Count of Toulouse in the 12th century. The French invasion paired with the internal rebellion over his military failures is what prompted John to attempt to vassalize himself to the Pope's envoy. At this point, the Barons and Stephen Langton turned hard against John and proclaimed that his oath to keep the Charter of Liberties was void, which is what led to the creation of the Magna Carta. The Roman Pope called off his French lackeys, having accomplished his "aim" of subjugating John, but they didn't listen. And the war only ended with John's death and the English acceptance of Henry III as the new King.

The English Barons were the ones who sent the French invaders home.

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