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Dangereuse (Aka) Maubergeonne De L' ISLE BOUCHARD

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  1. 1.  Dangereuse (Aka) Maubergeonne De L' ISLE BOUCHARDDangereuse (Aka) Maubergeonne De L' ISLE BOUCHARD was born in 1079 in Of, , Isle Bouchard, France; and died.

    Other Events:

    • FamilySearch ID: GJFP-BJ3
    • _UID: 9CE4C9045D9145D89B9A5BA6664EDF2243FF

    Notes:

    Ancestral File Number: VB1B-S6

    Family/Spouse: Aimeri I Viscount Of CHATELLERAULT. Aimeri (son of Boson II Viscount Of CHATELLERAULT and Aleanor (Eleanor) De THOUARS) was born in 1075 in , Chatellerault, Vienne, France; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 2. Elbeanor De CHATELLERAULT  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1103 in , Chatellerault, Poitou, Aquitaine; died after Mar 1130.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Elbeanor De CHATELLERAULTElbeanor De CHATELLERAULT Descendancy chart to this point (1.Dangereuse1) was born about 1103 in , Chatellerault, Poitou, Aquitaine; died after Mar 1130.

    Other Events:

    • _UID: B39CA58C8185413B9CF585F420C3249EB1FA

    Notes:

    Ancestral File Number: 8XPZ-HX

    Elbeanor married Guillaume X Duke Of AQUITAINE, Poitou Guillaume in 1121 in Of, , , France. Guillaume (son of Guillaume VII (Ix) Duke Of AQUITAINE and Philippa (Mathilde Or Maude), Countess Of TOULOUSE) was born in 1099 in Aquitaine, France; died on 19 Apr 1137 in St James At Compostella, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 3. Queen Eleanor De AQUITAINE  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1121-1122 in Chateau DE Belin, Bordeaux, Aquitaine; died on 31 Mar 1204 in Poitiers, Poitou, Aquitaine; was buried in Fontevraud Abbey, Maine-Et-Loire, France.
    2. 4. Guillaume "Le Hardi" D' AQUITAINE  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1124 in Of, Aquitaine; died before 9 Apr 1137.
    3. 5. Alix (Pernelle) De POITIERS  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1126 in Of, Aquitaine; died after 24 Oct 1153.


Generation: 3

  1. 3.  Queen Eleanor De AQUITAINEQueen Eleanor De AQUITAINE Descendancy chart to this point (2.Elbeanor2, 1.Dangereuse1) was born in 1121-1122 in Chateau DE Belin, Bordeaux, Aquitaine; died on 31 Mar 1204 in Poitiers, Poitou, Aquitaine; was buried in Fontevraud Abbey, Maine-Et-Loire, France.

    Other Events:

    • Fact 10: They Had 8 Children; Fact 10
    • FamilySearch ID: 9C8T-V1R
    • Name: DETAILLEFER
    • _UID: 485FD2AD6746498BB76C6BACA5826F87FEF2
    • ACCEDED: 12 Dec 1154

    Notes:

    From Encyclopedia Britannica Online, article titled Eleanor of Aquitaine:

    "also called ELEANOR OF GUYENNE, French ?EL?EONORE, OR ALI?ENOR, D'AQUITAINE, OR DEGUYENNE, queen consort of both Louis VII of France (in 1137-52) and Henry II of England (in 1152-1204) and mother of Richard I the Lion-Heart and John of England. She was perhaps the most powerful woman in 12th-century Europe.

    "She died in 1204 at the monastery at Fontevrault, Anjou, where she had retired after the campaign at Mirebeau. Her contribution to England extended beyond her own lifetime; after the loss of Normandy (1204), it was her own ancestral lands and not the old Norman territories that remained loyal to England. She has been misjudged by many French historians who have noted only her youthful frivolity, ignoring the tenacity, political wisdom, and energy that characterized the years of her maturity. "She was beautiful and just, imposing and modest, humble and elegant"; and, as the nuns of Fontevrault wrote in their necrology: a queen "who surpassed almost all the queens of the world."ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE (1122-1204) was one of the most important rulers of Medieval Europe.

    Many noblewomen in the Middle Ages were well-educated. but Eleanor had the chance to use her education at a time when European politics was dominated by men.

    When she was just fifteen, Eleanor's father died, and she inherited Aquitaine. the largest kingdom in France. That same year she married King Louis VII and became Queen of France. Although still a teenager, Eleanor was an impressive figure--beautiful, very well-educated, and fearlessly independent.
    When Louis went off on the Crusades, she went with him, traveling thousands of miles, much of it through hostile lands.

    But Eleanor and Louis had no male heir, and tensions developed between them. The Pope granted them a divorce when Eleanor was twenty-nine. Within months. Eleanor married Henry Plantagent, her ex-husband's main rival. Two years later Henry became King of England--and Eleanor was a queen again.

    However, Henry soon fell in love with another woman, and Eleanor left England to set up her own court in Aquitaine, which she still ruled. Troubadours from all over France flocked to her palace at Poitiers, where Eleanor acted as patron of the arts. Many of the ideas of chivalry that we associate with the Middle Ages were developed in Eleanor's court..

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    Some say King Lewis carried her into the Holy Land, where she carried herself not very holily, but led a licentious life; and, which is the worst kind of licentiousness, in carnal familiarity with a Turk.

    Birth:
    Some sources states that she was born in 1123.

    Family/Spouse: Prince Of Antioch Raymond I DE POITIERS, Prince Of Antioch. Raymond was born about 1100; died on 27 Jun 1149. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Eleanor married Louis VII "The Younger" CAPET, King Of France on 25 Jul 1137 in Bordeaux Cathedral, Bordeaux, France. Louis (son of Louis "The Fat" VI CAPET, King Of France and Alix (Adbelahide) Countess Of SAVOY, of Maurienne) was born in 1120 in Rheims, Champagne, France; died on 18 Sep 1180 in Paris, Isle DE France, France; was buried on 19 Sep 1180 in Abbey Barbeaux, Melun, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 6. Agnes CAPET  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1138; and died.
    2. 7. Mary (Marie) CAPET, Of France  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1145 in France; died on 11 Mar 1197-1198.

    Eleanor married King Henry II PLANTAGENET on 18 May 1152 in Bordeaux Cathedral, Bordeaux, France. Henry (son of Count Geoffrey V "Le Bon" PLANTAGENET and Emporess Maud Matilda ANGEVIN, Queen Of England) was born on 5 Mar 1133 in Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France; died on 6 Jul 1189 in Chinon Castle, Chinon, Indre-Et-Lr, France; was buried on 8 Jul 1189 in Fontevrault Abbey, Fontevrault, Maine-Et-Loire, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 8. Duke Of Brittany Geoffrey Of ENGLAND, Duke Of Brittany  Descendancy chart to this point died in 1185.
    2. 9. Prince William PLANTAGENET, Of Poiters  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 17 Aug 1153 in Rouen, Normandie, France; died about Apr 1156 in Willingford Castle, Reading, Berkshire, England; was buried in Reading Abbey, Reading, Berkshire, England.
    3. 10. Henry Prince Of ENGLAND  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 28 Mar 1155 in Bermandsey Palace, London, England; died on 11 Jun 1183 in Chcateau DE Mortel, Turenne, Aquitaine; was buried in , Rouen, Normandie.
    4. 11. Princess Matilda PLANTAGENET, Of England  Descendancy chart to this point was born in Jun 1156 in Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England; died on 28 Jun 1189 in Brunswick, Germany; was buried in Brunswick Cathedral, Brunswick, Germany.
    5. 12. King Richard I "The Lionhearted" Of PLANTAGENET, Of England  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 8 Sep 1157 in Beaumont Palace, Oxfordshire, England; died on 6 Apr 1199 in Killed By Arrow In Battle, Chalus, Limousin, France; was buried in Fontevrault Abbey, Fontevrault, Maine-Et-Loire, France.
    6. 13. Duke Geoffrey PLANTAGENET, Of Brittany  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 23 Sep 1158 in England; died on 19 Aug 1186 in Paris, France; was buried in Notre Dame, Paris, France.
    7. 14. Philip Prince Of ENGLAND  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1160 in Of, , , England; died about 1160-1162 in , Infant.
    8. 15. Queen Alianor "Eleanor" PLANTAGENET  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 13 Oct 1162 in Domfront Castle, Normandy; was christened in in , Domfront, Normandie; died on 25 Oct 1214 in Las Huelgas, Burgos, Burgos, Spain; was buried in Abbey Of Las Huelgas, Burgos, Castile, Spain.
    9. 16. Princess Joan PLANTAGENET, Of Sicily  Descendancy chart to this point was born in Oct 1165 in Angers Castle, Anjou, France; died on 4 Sep 1199 in Rouen, Normandie, France; was buried in Fontevraud, Anjou, England.
    10. 17. John "Lackland" King Of England PLANTAGENET  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 24 Dec 1166 in Kings Manor House, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England; died on 19 Oct 1216 in Newark, Nottinghamshire, England; was buried in Cathedral, Worcester, Worcestershire, England.

  2. 4.  Guillaume "Le Hardi" D' AQUITAINEGuillaume "Le Hardi" D' AQUITAINE Descendancy chart to this point (2.Elbeanor2, 1.Dangereuse1) was born about 1124 in Of, Aquitaine; died before 9 Apr 1137.

    Other Events:

    • Name: Le Hardi
    • _UID: 206D9C08082144C6BAA4ABD42D5495207728

    Notes:

    Ancestral File Number: 1RGV-496


  3. 5.  Alix (Pernelle) De POITIERSAlix (Pernelle) De POITIERS Descendancy chart to this point (2.Elbeanor2, 1.Dangereuse1) was born about 1126 in Of, Aquitaine; died after 24 Oct 1153.

    Other Events:

    • _UID: B5C0FE09964B42D5B7C0D99A1E3664051B32

    Notes:

    Ancestral File Number: 1RGV-480



Generation: 4

  1. 6.  Agnes CAPETAgnes CAPET Descendancy chart to this point (3.Eleanor3, 2.Elbeanor2, 1.Dangereuse1) was born about 1138; and died.

    Other Events:

    • _UID: 5BB9807B081F499F9712FBC06F28F692A176

    Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 7.  Mary (Marie) CAPET, Of FranceMary (Marie) CAPET, Of France Descendancy chart to this point (3.Eleanor3, 2.Elbeanor2, 1.Dangereuse1) was born in 1145 in France; died on 11 Mar 1197-1198.

    Other Events:

    • _UID: 2243A4D9BBA94773A410E7A22A3533CB9A7E

    Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  3. 8.  Duke Of Brittany Geoffrey Of ENGLAND, Duke Of BrittanyDuke Of Brittany Geoffrey Of ENGLAND, Duke Of Brittany Descendancy chart to this point (3.Eleanor3, 2.Elbeanor2, 1.Dangereuse1) died in 1185.

    Other Events:

    • FamilySearch ID: GJJP-RV9
    • _UID: 7B148E8BF9E9461F834762F691D7D490DD55

    Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 9.  Prince William PLANTAGENET, Of PoitersPrince William PLANTAGENET, Of Poiters Descendancy chart to this point (3.Eleanor3, 2.Elbeanor2, 1.Dangereuse1) was born on 17 Aug 1153 in Rouen, Normandie, France; died about Apr 1156 in Willingford Castle, Reading, Berkshire, England; was buried in Reading Abbey, Reading, Berkshire, England.

    Other Events:

    • FamilySearch ID: 9HPZ-HTL
    • _UID: A4C28880B88646388D08F640A6012FBB86FC


  5. 10.  Henry Prince Of ENGLANDHenry Prince Of ENGLAND Descendancy chart to this point (3.Eleanor3, 2.Elbeanor2, 1.Dangereuse1) was born on 28 Mar 1155 in Bermandsey Palace, London, England; died on 11 Jun 1183 in Chcateau DE Mortel, Turenne, Aquitaine; was buried in , Rouen, Normandie.

    Other Events:

    • FamilySearch ID: 9Z8G-C1P
    • _UID: D630E60EEAC54F61B9937948C74A5033FA40

    Notes:

    Ancestral File Number: 8XJ3-SD


  6. 11.  Princess Matilda PLANTAGENET, Of EnglandPrincess Matilda PLANTAGENET, Of England Descendancy chart to this point (3.Eleanor3, 2.Elbeanor2, 1.Dangereuse1) was born in Jun 1156 in Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England; died on 28 Jun 1189 in Brunswick, Germany; was buried in Brunswick Cathedral, Brunswick, Germany.

    Other Events:

    • FamilySearch ID: 9CMQ-TBB
    • _UID: 7C043BFE049A4FFE8F4153AA69F2510C2999


  7. 12.  King Richard I "The Lionhearted" Of PLANTAGENET, Of EnglandKing Richard I "The Lionhearted" Of PLANTAGENET, Of England Descendancy chart to this point (3.Eleanor3, 2.Elbeanor2, 1.Dangereuse1) was born on 8 Sep 1157 in Beaumont Palace, Oxfordshire, England; died on 6 Apr 1199 in Killed By Arrow In Battle, Chalus, Limousin, France; was buried in Fontevrault Abbey, Fontevrault, Maine-Et-Loire, France.

    Other Events:

    • CAUSED BY DEA: Wounded From An Arrow.
    • FamilySearch ID: L8T2-WWR
    • Name: The Lionhearted
    • _UID: DDA393DEB0404A2694703493E0D7F126EABB
    • RULED: Between 1189 and 1199, King Of England
    • ACCEDED: 3 Sep 1189, Westminster Abbey, London, Middlesex, England

    Notes:

    Richard I, called Coeur de Lion or Lion-Hearted (1157-1199), king of England (1189-1199), third son of King Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, born in Oxford. When he was an infant, Richard was betrothed to a daughter of the French king Louis VII, and in 1172 he was given the duchy of Aquitaine in France, his mother's inheritance. His early years were spent in warring against his father to protect his own interests; he emerged a brilliant soldier. In 1189 he became king of England and shortly thereafter set out on the Third Crusade. He was accompanied by the young Philip II, king of France, son of Louis VII. The Crusade proved a failure almost from the start, mainly because of the lack of harmony between the two kings. In Sicily Richard quarreled with Philip and refused to marry Philip's sister as planned. Instead he married Berengaria of Navarre on Cyprus, which he conquered in 1191. After capturing Acre (now 'Akko) from the Saracens that same year, Richard executed 2700 Muslim prisoners of war. It was Richard's personal valor in the Holy Land, however, rather than his ruthlessness, that made his name famous in legend. Conflict over policy in the Holy Land resulted in a break between the two, and Philip returned to France alone. Richard spent months in indecisive contests against Saladin, sultan of Egypt and Syria, before making a truce by which Jerusalem was left in Saladin's hands. Captured en route to England by Leopold V, duke of Austria, Richard was handed over to Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI. He was released in 1194 only after paying a heavy ransom. Richard returned to England and there made peace with his brother, John, later king of England, who in his absence had been conspiring with Philip to usurp the English throne. Leaving the government of England to the care of the able administrator Hubert Walter, archbishop of Canterbury, Richard went to France in 1194 to wage war against the French king. Campaigns in defense of his European lands continued for five years. Victor in most of the warfare in which he engaged, Richard was fatally wounded by an arrow during an insignificant skirmish in 1199. As king, Richard had chosen able ministers, to whom he left most matters of administration. Under his rule, however, England suffered heavy taxation, levied to support his expeditions. Sometimes cruel, sometimes magnanimous, and always courageous, Richard was well versed in the knightly accomplishments of his age and was also a poet. He was to become the hero of many legendary tales.

    AKA (2):
    "Lionheart"

    Richard married Queen Consort Berengaria Of NAVARRE in 1191 in Lemes?s (Limassol), Cyprus. Berengaria (daughter of King Sancho VI Of NAVARRE) was born in 1165; died in 1230 in Le Mans, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  8. 13.  Duke Geoffrey PLANTAGENET, Of BrittanyDuke Geoffrey PLANTAGENET, Of Brittany Descendancy chart to this point (3.Eleanor3, 2.Elbeanor2, 1.Dangereuse1) was born on 23 Sep 1158 in England; died on 19 Aug 1186 in Paris, France; was buried in Notre Dame, Paris, France.

    Other Events:

    • CAUSED BY DEA: Killed At A Tournament By His Horse.
    • FamilySearch ID: LT3S-M72
    • RULED: Earl Of Bretagne; Earl Of Richmond
    • _UID: 9C4F080AA6B1461683C54B5EF3DF95B3BB91
    • ACCEDED: 1166

    Notes:

    Ancestral File Number: 8WKQ-5R


  9. 14.  Philip Prince Of ENGLANDPhilip Prince Of ENGLAND Descendancy chart to this point (3.Eleanor3, 2.Elbeanor2, 1.Dangereuse1) was born about 1160 in Of, , , England; died about 1160-1162 in , Infant.

    Other Events:

    • FamilySearch ID: G3L3-VM8
    • _UID: EDD5891B05674D319E9B1B753323BC3F6A90

    Notes:

    Ancestral File Number: 8XJ3-X3


  10. 15.  Queen Alianor "Eleanor" PLANTAGENETQueen Alianor "Eleanor" PLANTAGENET Descendancy chart to this point (3.Eleanor3, 2.Elbeanor2, 1.Dangereuse1) was born on 13 Oct 1162 in Domfront Castle, Normandy; was christened in in , Domfront, Normandie; died on 25 Oct 1214 in Las Huelgas, Burgos, Burgos, Spain; was buried in Abbey Of Las Huelgas, Burgos, Castile, Spain.

    Other Events:

    • FamilySearch ID: LZ1V-V82
    • Name: Eleanor
    • _UID: 4888ABA98390466CA52FEF5CF3CCC270F93E

    Notes:

    Ancestral File Number: 8XJ3-Z8

    Alianor married King Alfonso "The Noble" SANCHEZ, VIII on 22 Sep 1177 in Castile, Burgos, Spain. Alfonso (son of Sancho Alfonsez III SANCHEZ, King Of Castille and Princess Blanche Garcia RAMIREZ, Of Navarre) was born on 11 Nov 1155 in Castilla, Castilla, Spain; died on 6 Oct 1214 in Gutierre, Munoz, Huelgas, Burgos, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 18. Berengaria DE CASTILLA, I  Descendancy chart to this point was born in Jun 1180 in Burgos, Castille and Leon, Espa?a; died on 8 Nov 1246 in Las Huelgas, Castille and Leon, Spain; was buried in 1246 in Abbey of Santa Mar?a la Real de Las Huelgas, Burgos, Spain.
    2. 19. Princess Berengaria Alfonsez SANCHEZ  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1181 in Segovia Castle, Spain; died on 8 Nov 1246 in Las Huelgas, Castile Y Leon, Spain.
    3. 20. Queen Berengaria Of Castile And LEON  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1181 in Castile, Burgos, Spain; died on 8 Nov 1246 in Las Huelgas, Castile Y Leon, Spain.
    4. 21. Henry, Prince of CASTILE  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1182 in , Castile, Spain; and died.
    5. 22. Princess Urraca Of CASTILE  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1186; died on 2 Nov 1220 in Libson, Portugal.
    6. 23. Blanche, Of Castile  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1188 in Palencia, Castile; died on 12 Nov 1252 in Paris, France.
    7. 24. Blanche DE CASTILLA, Reine de France  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 4 Mar 1188 in Palencia, Castilla y Le?n, Spain; died on 27 Nov 1252 in Palais du Louvre, Paris, France; was buried on 7 Dec 1253 in Maubuisson, Gironde, Aquitaine-Pyr?n?es (R?gion Moderne), France.
    8. 25. Leonor Of CASTILE  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1202; died in 1244 in Burgos, Castile, Spain.

  11. 16.  Princess Joan PLANTAGENET, Of SicilyPrincess Joan PLANTAGENET, Of Sicily Descendancy chart to this point (3.Eleanor3, 2.Elbeanor2, 1.Dangereuse1) was born in Oct 1165 in Angers Castle, Anjou, France; died on 4 Sep 1199 in Rouen, Normandie, France; was buried in Fontevraud, Anjou, England.

    Other Events:

    • CAUSED BY DEA: In Childbirth
    • FamilySearch ID: K48T-V4D
    • _UID: E8068BF3C4B64FB89B16318E39D268E3B3C6

    Notes:

    Died:
    She died from childbirth complications.


  12. 17.  John "Lackland" King Of England PLANTAGENETJohn "Lackland" King Of England PLANTAGENET Descendancy chart to this point (3.Eleanor3, 2.Elbeanor2, 1.Dangereuse1) was born on 24 Dec 1166 in Kings Manor House, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England; died on 19 Oct 1216 in Newark, Nottinghamshire, England; was buried in Cathedral, Worcester, Worcestershire, England.

    Other Events:

    • Affiliation: ; House of Plantagenet
    • CAUSED BY DEA: Probably From Dysentery
    • FamilySearch ID: LBYQ-Z26
    • Name: Lackland
    • _UID: 65CCDAABBD1F4C5CA4AF7F3CB2656D441068
    • RULED: Between 1199 and 1216, King Of England
    • ACCEDED: 27 May 1199, Westminster Abbey, London, Middlesex, England
    • Coronation: 27 May 1199, Westminster Abbey
    • Signed Magna Carta: 15 Jun 1215, England
    • Interment: Oct 1216, Worcestershire, England; Worcester Cathedral

    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.

    AKA (2):
    "Lackland"

    Family/Spouse: Agatha DE FERRERS. Agatha (daughter of Sybil DE BRAOSE) was born about 1168 in Chartley, Stafforshire, England; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 26. Joan PLANTAGENET  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 22 Jul 1190 in Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire, England; died after 30 Mar 1236 in Court Of Aberconway, North Wales; was buried in Llanfaes, Gwynedd, Wales, England.

    Family/Spouse: Suzanne DE WARENNE. Suzanne was born about 1170; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 27. Baron Chilham Richard FITZROY, Baron Chilham  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1186 in Chilham Castle, Kent, England; died on 6 Aug 1270 in Chilham Castle, Kent, England.

    Family/Spouse: Hawise DE TRACY. Hawise was born in 1168; died in Deceased. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 28. Mathilda FITZJOHN  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1201; died in Deceased.

    John married Avisa (Isabella) Of GLOUCESTER on 29 Aug 1189 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England. Avisa (daughter of William "Mafonache" FITZROBERT,, 2nd Earl of Gloucester and Hawise Mabel Avis BEAUMONT, [Countess]) was born about 1173 in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England; died on 14 Oct 1217; was buried in Cathedral, Canterbury, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    John married Isabella FITZROBERT, Of Gloucester on 29 Aug 1189 in Marlborough, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. Isabella (daughter of Earl William "Mafonache" FITZROBERT and Mabel (Hawise) DE BEAUMONT) was born about 1158 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England; died on 14 Oct 1217 in Kent, Jefferson County, Indiana; was buried in Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, Kent Co., England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 29. Robert PLANTAGENET  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1209; died in 1272.

    John married D'angouleme Isabella DE TAILLEFER, Queen Of England on 24 Aug 1200 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. Isabella (daughter of Count Of Valence & Angouleme Aymer DE TAILLEFER, Earl Of Glocester and Alice Alix DE COURTENAY) was born about 1180 in Angouleme, Charente-Maritime, France; died on 31 May 1246 in Fontrevrault, Marie-Et-Loire, France; was buried in Jun 1246 in Fontevrault-L'abbaye, Maine-Et-Loire, Pays De La Loire, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 30. King Henry III PLANTAGENET, Of England  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 1 Oct 1207 in Winchester Castle, Hampshire, England; died on 16 Nov 1272 in Winchester, London, England; was buried in Westminster Abbey, London, Middlesex, England.
    2. 31. King Of The Romans Earl Richard PLANTAGENET, Of Cornwall  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 5 Jan 1209 in Windsor Castle, Hampshire, England; died on 2 Apr 1272 in Berkhampsted, Berkhampsted, Hertfordshire, England; was buried on 13 Apr 1272 in Worcester Cathedral Or Hayles Abbey, England.
    3. 32. Joan OF ENGLAND  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 22 Jul 1210; died on 4 Mar 1238 in Havering atte Bower, Essex, England; was buried after 4 Mar 1238 in Tarrant Crawford Abbey, Dorset, England.
    4. 33. Princess Isabella PLANTAGENET, Of England  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1214 in Winchester Castle, Hampshire, England; died on 1 Dec 1241 in Foggia, Apulia, Calabria, Italy; was buried in Andria, Bari, Apulia, Italy.
    5. 34. Eleanor Princess Of ENGLAND  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1215 in Winchester, Hampshire, England; died on 13 Apr 1275 in Montargis, Loriet, France; was buried in , Montargis, Loiret, France.