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13 min read John Lackland, John Softsword, the phoney king… Not names one would want to be known by, especially as a monarch ruling over lands that stretched from Scotland to France.
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King John of England son of the Angevin and Plantagenet Empire 1199-1216. King John of England was the youngest son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, his siblings included Henry The Younger King (his eldest brother) and Richard I , the Lionheart. Already you can get a sense of te context and perspective in which John's life and destiny.
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For making this agreement, he was cursed with the epithet of 'John Softsword' and branded a coward, but the deal was both good and necessary, given the state of his finances and his precarious.
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His military standing among the nobles fell and he was given a new nickname - John Softsword. The defeat in north France was a major blow for John and a costly one. To pay for the defeat, John increased taxes which was not popular with anybody other than John and his treasurers. John also succeeded in falling out with the pope in 1207.
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This damaged his reputation further, earning him the new nickname of John Softsword. Known to have inherited his father's bad temper, John decided to cover the costs of the defeat by raising taxes, but this angered all but his treasurers.
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King John of England (aka John Lackland) ruled from 1199 to 1216 CE and he has gone down in history as one of the very worst of English kings, both for his character and his failures.
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John (24 December 1166 - 19 October 1216) was King of England from 1199 until his death in 1216. He lost the Duchy of Normandy and most of his other French lands to King Philip II of France, resulting in the collapse of the Angevin Empire and contributing to the subsequent growth in power of the French Capetian dynasty during the 13th century.
Why has there only been one King John? Historic UK
As king, John gained an even worse nickname - Mollegladius, or 'Softsword', for his failures in fighting Philip of France. But 'Lackland' dogged him for most of his life. Laura Ashe is associate professor of English at Worcester College, Oxford, and the author of Richard II (Allen Lane, 2016)
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With John "the Softsword" cornered and forced into negotiations, he chose a serene meadow called Runnymede. King John met with the barons here in this open field at Runnymede, along the banks of the Thames River, two miles south of Windsor Castle, to make peace. It was June 15, 1215, that he affixed his seal to the Magna Carta, the great.
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A detailed biography of King John Lackland (John Softsword) that includes includes images, quotations and the main facts of his life. Key Stage 3. GCSE.. King John was forced to sign a five-year truce with King Philip at a price that was believed to be in the region of £40,000. (87)
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In a bid to clear the muddied waters, King John's faithful fool and personal assistant, Max Tobin (strangely never before mentioned in any historical text), looks back at the evidence against.
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King John is a study of a king and his political misfortunes. It is also an examination of a fascinating era -- the early thirteenth century, a period of profound social and political change and unprecedented insecurity.. The fight for an inheritance (1199-1200); The Treaty of Le Goulet (1200); 'John Softsword'; The Angoulême marriage (1200.
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King John was king of England from 1199 to 1216. He is often remembered as a cruel and power-hungry king whose reign ended in the middle of a disastrous civil war with the barons of England.
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John (24 December 1166 - 19 October 1216), also known as John Lackland or Softsword, was King of England from 6 April 1199 until his death. His reign saw the loss of the duchy of Normandy to the French king Philip II in 1204, resulting in the collapse of most of the Angevin Empire and the subsequent growth in the power of the Capetian dynasty.
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In this lesson, we will learn about why some historians claim that John was a bad king. We will also learn more about King John and what characteristics constitute a good king. History. Teacher View. Exit Lesson. Teacher View. Exit Lesson.. Weak Coward Lackland Softsword. 3/5. See results. Q4.