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ARTICLES RELATED TO John of England - External link | | | |  John of England - External link: Encyclopedia II - John of England - ReignAfter Richard's death, John did not gain immediate universal recognition as king. Some regarded his young nephew, Arthur of Brittany, the posthumous son of John's brother Geoffrey, as the rightful heir. Arthur vied with his uncle John for the throne, and enjoyed the support of King Philip II of France. The conflict between Arthur and King John had fatal consequences. The war upset the barons of Poitou enough for them to seek redress from the King of France, who was King John's feudal overlord with respect to certain terrorities on the Contin ...
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| | | | John of England - External link: Encyclopedia II - John of England - Alleged illiteracy For a long time, schoolchildren have learned that King John had to approve Magna Carta by attaching his seal to it because he could not sign it, lacking the ability to read or write (ignoring the fact that King John had a large library he treasured until the end of his life.) This textbook inaccuracy resembled that of textbooks which claimed that Christopher Columbus wanted to prove the earth was round. Whether the original authors of these errors knew better and oversimplified because they wrote for children, or whether they had been ...
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| | | | John of England - External link: Encyclopedia II - John of England - Death In 1216, John, retreating from an invasion by Prince Louis of France (whom the majority of the English barons had invited to replace John on the throne), crossed the marshy area known as The Wash in East Anglia and lost his most valuable treasures, including the Crown Jewels to the unexpected incoming tide. This dealt him a terrible blow, which affected his health and state of mind, and he succumbed to dysentery, dying on October 18 or 19, at Newark in Lincolnshire. Numerous, if fictitious, accounts circulated soon after his death that he ha ...
See also:John of England, John of England - Early years, John of England - Reign, John of England - Death, John of England - Alleged illiteracy, John of England - Notes, John of England - Depictions in fiction, John of England - Trivia, John of England - External link Read more here: » John of England: Encyclopedia II - John of England - Death |
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| | | | John of England - External link: Encyclopedia II - John of England - Early years Born at Beaumont Palace, Oxford, John was the fifth son of King Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine.
John was a younger maternal half-brother of Marie de Champagne and Alix of France. He was a younger brother of William, Count of Poitiers, Henry the Young King, Matilda of England, Richard I of England, Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany, Leonora of Aquitaine and Joan of England.
While John was always his father's favourite son, as the youngest he could expect no inheritance (hence his nickname, "Lackland"). He was almost ce ...
See also:John of England, John of England - Early years, John of England - Reign, John of England - Death, John of England - Alleged illiteracy, John of England - Notes, John of England - Depictions in fiction, John of England - Trivia, John of England - External link Read more here: » John of England: Encyclopedia II - John of England - Early years |
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