King John

Standard Name: John, King

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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.
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Craven, Pauline. Life of Lady Georgiana Fullerton. Translator Coleridge, Henry James, 2nd revised, R. Bentley and Son, 1888.
9
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

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6 April 1199: Richard I died and King John succeeded to...

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6 April 1199

Richard I died and King John succeeded to the throne.
Norgate, Kate. England under the Angevin Kings. B. Franklin, 1969.
386

1 April 1204: Eleanor of Aquitaine, the politically powerful...

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1 April 1204

Eleanor of Aquitaine, the politically powerful mother of the English King John , died.
Franck, Irene, and David Brownstone. Women’s World: A Timeline of Women in History. HarperCollins; HarperPerennial, 1995.
27-8
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
66-76

1 April 1204: Eleanor of Aquitaine, the politically powerful...

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1 April 1204

Eleanor of Aquitaine, the politically powerful mother of the English King John , died.
Franck, Irene, and David Brownstone. Women’s World: A Timeline of Women in History. HarperCollins; HarperPerennial, 1995.
27-8
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
66-76

15 June 1215: King John signed the Magna Carta or Great...

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15 June 1215

King John signed the Magna Carta or Great Charter at Runnymede (near Egham, Surrey) at the behest of powerful barons.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
7: 348
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 76
Gillingham, John. “The Early Middle Ages (1066-1290)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 104-65.
131

19 October 1216: King John died and Henry III succeeded to...

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19 October 1216

King John died and Henry III succeeded to the throne.
Poole, Austin Lane. From Domesday Book to Magna Carta 1087-1216. Clarendon, 1951.
486

1968: The Runnymede Trust (named after the place...

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1968

The Runnymede Trust (named after the place where on 15 June 1215 King John signed the Magna Carta) was set up as a voluntary, independent think-tank aiming to promote a successful multi-ethnic Britain.
“About Runnymede”. The Runnymede Trust.

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