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  1. John (24 December 1166 – 19 October 1216) was the king of England from 1199 until his death in 1216. He lost the Duchy of Normandy and most of his other French lands to King Philip II of France, resulting in the collapse of the Angevin Empire and contributing to the subsequent growth in power of the French Capetian dynasty during the 13th ...

  2. Jun 22, 2015 · John’s 1st Expedition to Ireland. The 18 year old Prince John was accompanied by Giraldus Cambrensis as tutor and secretary, and was attended by a numerous retinue, comprising many ecclesiastics, 300 knights, and a large body of cavalry, archers, and men-at-arms, all in sixty ships.

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    Retreating from the French invasion, John took a safe route around the marshy area of the Wash to avoid the rebel held area of East Anglia. His slow baggage train (including the Crown Jewels), however, took a direct route across it and were lost on it to the unexpected incoming tide. This dealt John a terrible blow, which affected his health and state of mind. Succumbing to dysenteryand moving from place to place, he stayed one night at Sleaford Castle before dying on October 18 or 19 at Newa...

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    His nine-year-old son succeeded him and became King Henry III of England(1216–1272), and although Louis continued to claim the English throne, the barons switched their allegiance to the new king, forcing Louis to give up his claim and sign the Treaty of Lambeth in 1217.

    King John's reign has been traditionally characterized as one of the most disastrous in English history: it began with defeats—he lost Normandy to Philip Augustus of France in his first five years on the throne—and ended with England torn by civil war and himself on the verge of being forced out of power. In 1213, he made England a papal fief to re...

    In 1189, John was married to Isabel of Gloucester, daughter and heiress of William Fitz Robert, Second Earl of Gloucester (she is given several alternative names by history, including Avisa, Hawise, Joan, and Eleanor). They had no children, and John had their marriage annulledon the grounds of consanguinity some time before or shortly after his acc...

    Barlow, Frank. The Feudal Kingdom of England 1042–1216. NY: Longman. Fifth ed. 1999. ISBN 0582381177
    Church, S. D. King John: New Interpretations. Rochester, NY: Boydell. 2003. ISBN 978-0851159478
    Hollister, C. Warren. Medieval Europe: A Short History. Seventh Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill. 1994. ISBN 0070296375
    Warren, W. L. King John. Berkeley, CA: University of California. 1978. ISBN 0520036433
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  4. Dec 16, 2019 · Definition. King John of England (aka John Lackland) ruled from 1199 to 1216 CE and he has gone down in history as one of the very worst of English kings, both for his character and his failures. He lost the Angevin-Plantagenet lands in France and so crippled England financially that the barons rebelled and forced him to sign the Magna Carta ...

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  5. Richard the Lionheart, King John, and the Magna Carta. Richard (1189-99) is known to history as "Coeur de Lion", or Lionheart, because of his bravery in battle. He was without a doubt a great warrior, but he was a very poor king for England. In his ten-year reign, he spent only ten months in England, and that only to raise money for his foreign ...

  6. GERALDOF WALES: A PUBLIC READING IN OXFORD IN 1188 OR 1189. On24 April 1185 Prince John sailed with a fleet from Pembroke and Milford Haven~ and landed atWaterford. Gerald of Wales, aclose relative of the earlier conquerors ofIreland, was ent with him as chal~lain and adviser. 1 John eturned home in the winter ofthat same year, butGerald ...

  7. King John presided over the loss of the extensive realm that his father King Henry II (reigned 1154–1189) had ruled across the English Channel. His prolonged failure to reconquer that territory, the unprecedented level of taxation he demanded, and conflicts that he unnecessarily caused with Pope Innocent III all served to erode his political support at home.

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