Why did kings and magnates have an interest in promoting towns and cities in their realms?

a. Towns and cities lay outside the direct control of nobles or could be dislodged from their control.
b. Towns and cities provided a safety valve for rural overpopulation.
c. Urban moneylenders financed royal armies.
d. Urban bishops sided with kings and magnates against the Pope.


a. Towns and cities lay outside the direct control of nobles or could be dislodged from their control.

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