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 1166 - 1216 (49 years)
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| Name |
John "Lackland" King Of England PLANTAGENET [5] |
| Nickname |
Lackland |
| Born |
24 Dec 1166 |
Kings Manor House, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England  [5] |
| Gender |
Male |
| RULED |
Between 1199 and 1216 |
King Of England [5] |
| ACCEDED |
27 May 1199 |
Westminster Abbey, London, Middlesex, England [5] |
| Affiliation |
[6] |
| House of Plantagenet |
| AKA (2) |
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| CAUSED BY DEA |
Probably From Dysentery [5] |
| Coronation |
27 May 1199 |
Westminster Abbey [6] |
| FamilySearch ID |
LBYQ-Z26 |
| Signed Magna Carta |
15 Jun 1215 |
England [6] |
| Interment |
Oct 1216 |
Worcestershire, England [6] |
| Worcester Cathedral |
| Name |
Lackland |
| _UID |
65CCDAABBD1F4C5CA4AF7F3CB2656D441068 |
| Died |
19 Oct 1216 |
Newark, Nottinghamshire, England [5] |
| Buried |
Cathedral, Worcester, Worcestershire, England [5] |
| Person ID |
I13533 |
Carney Wehofer Feb 2024 Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
13 Dec 2022 |
| Father |
King Henry II PLANTAGENET, b. 5 Mar 1133, Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France , d. 6 Jul 1189, Chinon Castle, Chinon, Indre-Et-Lr, France (Age 56 years) |
| Mother |
Queen Eleanor De AQUITAINE, b. 1121-1122, Chateau DE Belin, Bordeaux, Aquitaine , d. 31 Mar 1204, Poitiers, Poitou, Aquitaine (Age 82 years) |
| Married |
18 May 1152 |
Bordeaux Cathedral, Bordeaux, France [3, 5, 7] |
- They may have been married on the 11th of May.
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| Family ID |
F6983 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Agatha DE FERRERS, b. Abt 1168, Chartley, Stafforshire, England , d. Yes, date unknown |
| Married |
Y [3] |
| Children |
| | 1. Joan PLANTAGENET, b. 22 Jul 1190, Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire, England , d. Aft 30 Mar 1236, Court Of Aberconway, North Wales (Age 45 years) |
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| Last Modified |
29 Aug 2016 |
| Family ID |
F6929 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 4 |
Avisa (Isabella) Of GLOUCESTER, b. Abt 1173, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England , d. 14 Oct 1217 (Age ~ 44 years) |
| Married |
29 Aug 1189 |
Marlborough, Wiltshire, England [3, 6] |
- 1 _FA1 2 DATE 1199 2 PLAC So King John could marry Isabella Taillefer 1 _MEND Divorce
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| Last Modified |
29 Aug 2016 |
| Family ID |
F6930 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 5 |
Isabella FITZROBERT, Of Gloucester, b. Abt 1158, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England , d. 14 Oct 1217, Kent, Jefferson County, Indiana (Age ~ 59 years) |
| Married |
29 Aug 1189 |
Marlborough, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England [5] |
| Divorced |
Divorced |
| _STAT |
1199 |
| Divorced |
| Children |
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| Last Modified |
29 Aug 2016 |
| Family ID |
F2106 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 6 |
D'angouleme Isabella DE TAILLEFER, Queen Of England, b. Abt 1180, Angouleme, Charente-Maritime, France , d. 31 May 1246, Fontrevrault, Marie-Et-Loire, France (Age ~ 66 years) |
| Married |
24 Aug 1200 |
Bordeaux, Gironde, France [3, 5] |
| Children |
| | 1. King Henry III PLANTAGENET, Of England, b. 1 Oct 1207, Winchester Castle, Hampshire, England , d. 16 Nov 1272, Winchester, London, England (Age 65 years) |
| | 2. King Of The Romans Earl Richard PLANTAGENET, Of Cornwall, b. 5 Jan 1209, Windsor Castle, Hampshire, England , d. 2 Apr 1272, Berkhampsted, Berkhampsted, Hertfordshire, England (Age 63 years) |
| | 3. Joan OF ENGLAND, b. 22 Jul 1210, d. 4 Mar 1238, Havering atte Bower, Essex, England (Age 27 years) |
| | 4. Princess Isabella PLANTAGENET, Of England, b. 1214, Winchester Castle, Hampshire, England , d. 1 Dec 1241, Foggia, Apulia, Calabria, Italy (Age 27 years) |
| | 5. Eleanor Princess Of ENGLAND, b. 1215, Winchester, Hampshire, England , d. 13 Apr 1275, Montargis, Loriet, France (Age 60 years) |
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| Last Modified |
13 Dec 2022 |
| Family ID |
F6932 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- John was born on Christmas Eve 1167. His parents drifted apart after his birth; his youth was divided between his eldest brother Henry's house, where he learned the art of knighthood, and the house of his father's justiciar, Ranulf Glanvil, where he learned the business of government. As the fourth child, inherited lands were not available to him, giving rise to his nickname, Lackland. His first marriage lasted but ten years and was fruitless, but his second wife, Isabella of Angouleme, bore him two sons and three daughters. He also had an illegitimate daughter, Joan, who married Llywelyn the Great, Ruler of All Wales, from which the Tudor line of monarchs was descended. The survival of the English government during John's reign is a testament to the reforms of his father, as John taxed the system socially, economically, and judicially.
The Angevin family feuds profoundly marked John. He and Richard clashed in 1184 following Richard's refusal to honor his father's wishes surrender Aquitane to John. The following year Henry II sent John to rule Ireland, but John alienated both the native Irish and the transplanted Anglo-Normans who emigrated to carve out new lordships for themselves; the experiment was a total failure and John returned home within six months. After Richard gained the throne in 1189, he gave John vast estates in an unsuccessful attempt to appease his younger brother. John failed to overthrow Richard's administrators during the German captivity and conspired with Philip II in another failed coup attempt. Upon Richard's release from captivity in 1194, John was forced to sue for pardon and he spent the next five years in his brother's shadow.
John's reign was troubled in many respects. A quarrel with the Church resulted in England being placed under an interdict in 1207, with John actually excommunicated two years later. The dispute centered on John's stubborn refusal to install the papal candidate, Stephen Langdon, as Archbishop of Canterbury; the issue was not resolved until John surrendered to the wishes of Pope Innocent III and paid tribute for England as the Pope's vassal.
John proved extremely unpopular with his subjects. In addition to the Irish debacle, he inflamed his French vassals by orchestrating the murder of his popular nephew, Arthur of Brittany. By spring 1205, he lost the last of his French possessions and returned to England. The final ten years of his reign were occupied with failed attempts to regain these territories. After levying a number of new taxes upon the barons to pay for his dismal campaigns, the discontented barons revolted, capturing London in May 1215. At Runnymeade in the following June, John succumbed to pressure from the barons, the Church, and the English people at-large, and signed the Magna Carta. The document, a declaration of feudal rights, stressed three points. First, the Church was free to make ecclesiastic appointments. Second, larger-than-normal amounts of money could only be collected with the consent of the king's feudal tenants. Third, no freeman was to be punished except within the context of common law. Magna Carta, although a testament to John's complete failure as monarch, was the forerunner of modern constitutions. John only signed the document as a means of buying time and his hesitance to implement its principles compelled the nobility to seek French assistance. The barons offered the throne to Philip II's son, Louis. John died in the midst of invasion from the French in the South and rebellion from his barons in the North.
John was remembered in elegant fashion by Sir Richard Baker in A Chronicle of the Kings of England: ". . .his works of piety were very many . . . as for his actions, he neither came to the crown by justice, nor held it with any honour, nor left it peace."
MAGNA CARTA
The Great Charter of English liberty granted (under considerable duress) by King John at Runnymede on June 15, 1215 John, by the grace of God King of England, Lord of Ireland, Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, and Count of Anjou, to his archbishops, bishops, abbots, earls, barons, justices, foresters, sheriffs, stewards, servants, and to all his officials and loyal subjects, greeting.
Know that before God, for the health of our soul and those of our ancestors and heirs, to the honour of God, the exaltation of the holy Church, and the better ordering of our kingdom, at the advice of our reverend fathers Stephen, archbishop of Canterbury, primate of all England, and cardinal of the holy Roman Church, Henry archbishop of Dublin, William bishop of London, Peter bishop of Winchester, Jocelin bishop of Bath and Glastonbury, Hugh bishop of Lincoln, Walter Bishop of Worcester, William bishop of Coventry, Benedict bishop of Rochester, Master Pandulf subdeacon and member of the papal household, Brother Aymeric master of the Knights of the Temple in England, William Marshal, earl of Pembroke, William earl of Salisbury, William earl of Warren, William earl of Arundel, Alan de Galloway constable of Scotland, Warin Fitz Gerald, Peter Fitz Herbert, Hubert de Burgh seneschal of Poitou, Hugh de Neville, Matthew Fitz Herbert, Thomas Basset, Alan Basset, Philip Daubeny, Robert de Roppeley, John Marshal, John Fitz Hugh, and other loyal subjects:
In French JEAN SANS TERRE king of England from 1199 to 1216. In a war with the French king Philip II, he lost Normandy and almost all his other possessions in France. In England, after a revolt of the barons, he was forced to seal the Magna Carta (1215).
From the Encyclopedia Britannica Online, article titled "John:"
"John's reputation, bad at his death, was further depressed by writers of the next generation. Of all centuries prior to the present, only the 16th, mindful of his quarrel with Rome, recognized some of his quality. He was suspicious, vengeful, and treacherous; Arthur I of Brittany was probably murdered in captivity, and Matilda de Braose, the wife of a recalcitrant Marcher baron, was starved to death with her son in a royal prison. But John was cultured and literate. Conventional in his religion rather than devout, he was remembered for his benefactions to the church of Coventry, to Reading Abbey, and to Worcester, where he was buried and where his effigy still survives. He was extraordinarily active, with a great love of hunting and a readiness to travel that gave him a knowledge of England matched by few other monarchs. He took a personal interest in judicial and financial administration, and his reign saw important advances at the Exchequer, in the administration of justice, in the importance of the privy seal and the royal household, in methods of taxation and military organization, and in the grant of chartered privileges to towns. If his character was unreliable, his political judgment was acute. In 1215 many barons, including some of the most distinguished, fought on his side."
"Lackland" refered to John's status as the youngest son, resulting in no significant inherited fiefs from his Father. His titles included King of Ireland 1177, Count of Mortain 1189, Earl of Gloucester. John succeeded his brother Richard I as King in 1199. In 1215 he put his seal on the Magna Carta (Great Charter). The Magna Carta is the foundation of English Constitutional law and liberties and placed the King, like the subjects he ruled, subject to the rule of law. He is Interred in Worcester Cathedral. "The Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages" Norman F. Cantor, General Editor.
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- [S400] Ancestral File (R), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998).
- [S392] David Weaver.
- [S10] GEDCOM File : mwballard.ged, Mark Willis Ballard 6928 N. Lakewood Avenue 773-743-6663 [email protected].
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- [S231] University of Hull: http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/publ, Brian C. Tompsett, FitzEmpress, Henry II Curtmantle, King of England (Reliability: 3).
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