King John

Standard Name: John, King

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Features Menella Bute Smedley
A chivalric romance in verse, the work tells the tale of Queen Isabel , her husband King John and the Plantangenet struggle. During the poem's narrative, Isabel makes the mistake of marrying John but manages...
Textual Production Georgiana Fullerton
When she was nine or ten years old, Geogiana Leveson-Gower (later GF ) began to write scraps of French verses.
Craven, Pauline. Life of Lady Georgiana Fullerton. Coleridge, Henry JamesTranslator , R. Bentley and Son, 1888.
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Around this time she also attempted a tragedy, in imitation of William Shakespeare ...
Textual Production Jean Plaidy
In this extremely well-populated series, this first Plantagenet led a long procession. Its followers were two novels in 1977, The Revolt of the Eaglets, and The Heart of the Lion (about Richard Coeur de Lion

Timeline

6 April 1199
Richard I died and King John succeeded to the throne.
1 April 1204
Eleanor of Aquitaine, the politically powerful mother of the English King John , died.
1 April 1204
Eleanor of Aquitaine, the politically powerful mother of the English King John , died.
15 June 1215
King John signed the Magna Carta or Great Charter at Runnymede (near Egham, Surrey) at the behest of powerful barons.
19 October 1216
King John died and Henry III succeeded to the throne.
1968
The Runnymede Trust (named after the place where on 15 June 1215King John signed the Magna Carta) was set up as a voluntary, independent think-tank aiming to promote a successful multi-ethnic Britain.