In order to suppress the flames of rebellino in Ireland, and to inquire i nto the oppressive conduct of the De Lacys, King John landed at Waterfo rd with an army, on 8 June 1210. This so intimidated the Irish, that up wards of 20 of their chiefs did homage to him in that city. The De Lacy s, conscious of their villainies and oppressions, fled to Carrickfergus o n the news of the King's arrival in Ireland. King John besieged the cas tle and Hugh and his brother Walter embarked in a vessel for France. Af ter the capture of the castle, the King threw many of De Lacy's barons a nd adherents into the dungeons, siezed on their lands and granted them t heir liberty only when he had wrung from them the last penny they were a ble to pay. He placed in the castle a garrison under the command of Wil liam de Serlande. The incorporation of the town is attributable to King J ohn during his stay in the castle. [Carrickfergus, p. 5]
King John made a gift of land to the Cistercian monks for the building o f Beaulieu Abbey in 1204. The monks who first cam to eaulieu thought th e location ideal, mainly due to it s proximity to a river and the fact t hat there were suitable building materials to be found close at hand. I t was a vast undertaking and King John's only religious foundation. ["P lace of the King" by Derek Littlewood, REALM June 2002, pp. 44-49]
Gorey Castle, Channel Islands, England dates back to the 13th century d uring the reign of England's King John. When Normandy was lost to the F rench and became enemy territory, this castle was built at Gorey, just 1 0 miles from the Normandy coast, in order to defend against French raid s. [Castles & Palaces Calendar, October 2003]
NORTHAMPTON CASTLE: There is practically nothering left of this once im portant medieval castle. The first sturcture was a motte castle, built i n the 1080s, on a site from which several Anglo-Saxon houses had been c leared. In c.1110, Henry I took over the castle and enlarged it. Works i nclude a substantial ditch and a rampart round a large bailey. This was o ne of thos occasions when the Crown paid compensation for encroaching u pon another owner's land. By 1164 the castle had a great hall, a gatewa y, curtain walling and a chapel. Soon afterwards, a great tower was bui lt although it is not possible to say what shape or size it achieved.
Northampton was besieged by the Magna Carta barons' forces using Fre nch-built siege artillery, but King John relieved the garrison and forc ed the attackers to withdraw. Major repairs were needed after this enga gement but, despite continuing expenditure, the castle was not properly d efensible by the time of the Barons' War against Henry III, led by Simo n de Montfort who used the castle as a headquarters. There was more spe nt on it over the next century but it continued to deteriorate. The rem ains were obscured by the erection of a railway over the site in the 19 th century. [Castles of Britain and Ireland, p. 165]
King John (December 24, 1167 - October 19, 1216) was King of England fr om 1199 to 1216. He was the youngest brother of King Richard I who was k nown as "Richard the Lionheart". Nicknames are "Lackland" (in French, s ans terre) and "Soft-sword".
John is best known for angering the barons to rebellion, so that they f orced him to agree to the Magna Carta in 1215, and then signing England o ver to the Pope to get out of the promises he made in that Great Charte r. The truth, however, is that he was no better or worse a king than hi s immediate predecessor or his successor (which is still not much of a c ompliment).
Born at Oxford, he was the fifth son of King Henry II of England and El eanor of Aquitaine, and was always his father's favourite son, though b eing the youngest, he could expect no inheritance (hence his nickname, " Lackland"). In 1189 he married Isabel, daughter of the Earl of Gloucest er. (She is given several alternative names by history, including Hawis e (or Avice), Joan, and Eleanor.) They had no children, and John had th eir marriage annulled on the grounds of consanguinity, some time before o r shortly after his accession to the throne, which took place on April 6 , 1199. (She then married Hubert de Burgh).
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More About John I- "Lackland"PLANTAGENET, of England:
Date born 2: December 24, 1166, Beaumont Palace, Oxford, England.10589, 10590, 10591
Date born 3: 116710592, 10593
Date born 4: December 24, 1167, Beaumont Palace, Oxford, Oxford, England.10593
Burial 1: Unknown, Worcester, England.10594, 10595
Burial 2: Worcester Cathedral, Worcestershire, England.10596, 10597
Christening 1: King of England 1119-1216; forced to sign Magna Carta 1215;.10598, 10599
Christening 2: Kings Manor House, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England.10600, 10601
Died 2: 121610602, 10603
Died 3: October 12, 121610604, 10605
Died 4: October 19, 1216, Newark Castle, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England.10605
Died 5: October 19, 1216, Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire, England; dysentery.10606, 10607, 10608
Founded: 1204, Hampshire, England.10609, 10610, 10611
Lived: 10612, 10613
Military: 1210, Ireland.10614, 10615, 10616
Occupation 1: King England 1199-1216.10617, 10618
Occupation 2: King of England.10619, 10620
Record Change: November 16, 200510620
Title (Facts Pg: King.10621, 10622
More About John I- "Lackland"PLANTAGENET, of England and of Angouleme De Taillefer Isabella:
Marriage 1: August 24, 1200, Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France.10623, 10624, 10625, 10626
Marriage 2: August 24, 1200, Bordeaux Cathedral, Gironde, Gascony, France.10627, 10628, 10629, 10630
Marriage 3: August 29, 120010631, 10632
Marriage Notes for John I- "Lackland"PLANTAGENET, of England and of Angouleme De Taillefer Isabella:
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# ID: I945
# Name: John I PLANTAGENET
# Given Name: John I
# Surname: Plantagenet
# NSFX: King of England, King of Ireland
# Nickname: Lackland
# Sex: M
# _UID: 5BE59542837F8340B882A9206EEB7C2CE013
# Change Date: 19 Jun 2005
# Birth: 24 DEC 1167 in Beaumont Palace, Oxford
# Death: 19 OCT 1216 in Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire
Father: Henry II Plantagenet FITZEMPRESS b: 25 MAR 1133 in LeMans, Anjo u
Mother: Eleanor b: 1122
Marriage 1 Isabella (D'Angouleme) TAILLEFER b: 1188 in Angouleme, Chare nte, Aquitaine
* Married: 24 AUG 120 in Bordeaux Cathedral, France
Children
1. Has Children Henry III b: 1 OCT 1207 in Winchester Castle
Marriage 2 Clemence
* Married:
Children
1. Has Children Joan PLANTAGENET b: ABT 1188 in London
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# ID: I577685895
# Name: John "Lackland" PLANTAGENET
# Given Name: John "Lackland"
# Surname: PLANTAGENET
# Sex: M
# Birth: 24 Dec 1166 in England
# Death: 19 Oct 1216 in England
# Change Date: 14 Jun 2004
Father: Henry II "Curtmantle" PLANTAGENET b: 5 Mar 1131/1133 in England
Mother: Eleanore D'AQUITAINE b: Abt. 1121 in France
Marriage 1 Isabelle DE TAILLEFER b: Abt. 1188
* Note: _UIDDE9778A424765F4FA229276A3E97E9D0C366
Children
1. Henry III PLANTAGENET b: 1 Oct 1206/1207 in England
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John "Lackland" King Of England [Parents] [scrapbook] 1 was born on 24 D ec 1166 in Kings Manor House, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. He died on 1 9 Oct 1216 in , Newark, Nottinghamshire, England. He was buried in Cath edral, Worcester, Worcestershire, England. He married Agatha De Ferrers i n Unmarried.
Other marriages:
Taillefer, Isabella De
John was born on Christmas Eve 1167. His parents drifted apart afte r his birth; his youth was divided between his eldest brother Henry's h ouse, where he learned the art of knighthood, and the house of his fath er's justiciar, Ranulf Glanvil, where he learned the business of govern ment. As the fourth child, inherited lands were not available to him, g iving rise to his nickname, Lackland. His first marriage lasted but ten y ears and was fruitless, but his second wife, Isabella of Angouleme, bor e him two sons and three daughters. He also had an illegitimate daughte r, Joan, who married Llywelyn the Great, Ruler of All Wales, from which t he Tudor line of monarchs was descended. The survival of the English go vernment during John's reign is a testament to the reforms of his fathe r, as John taxed the system socially, economically, and judicially.
The Angevin family feuds profoundly marked John. He and Richard cla shed in 1184 following Richard's refusal to honor his father's wishes s urrender Aquitane to John. The following year Henry II sent John to rul e Ireland, but John alienated both the native Irish and the transplante d Anglo-Normans who emigrated to carve out new lordships for themselves ; the experiment was a total failure and John returned home within six m onths. After Richard gained the throne in 1189, he gave John vast estat es in an unsuccessful attempt to appease his younger brother. John fail ed to overthrow Richard's administrators during the German captivity an d conspired with Philip II in another failed coup attempt. Upon Richard 's release from captivity in 1194, John was forced to sue for pardon an d he spent the next five years in his brother's shadow.
John's reign was troubled in many respects. A quarrel with the Chur ch resulted in England being placed under an interdict in 1207, with Jo hn actually excommunicated two years later. The dispute centered on Joh n's stubborn refusal to install the papal candidate, Stephen Langdon, a s Archbishop of Canterbury; the issue was not resolved until John surre ndered to the wishes of Pope Innocent III and paid tribute for England a s the Pope's vassal.
John proved extremely unpopular with his subjects. In addition to t he Irish debacle, he inflamed his French vassals by orchestrating the m urder of his popular nephew, Arthur of Brittany. By spring 1205, he los t the last of his French possessions and returned to England. The final t en years of his reign were occupied with failed attempts to regain thes e territories. After levying a number of new taxes upon the barons to p ay for his dismal campaigns, the discontented barons revolted, capturin g London in May 1215. At Runnymeade in the following June, John succumb ed to pressure from the barons, the Church, and the English people at-l arge, and signed the Magna Carta. The document, a declaration of feudal r ights, stressed three points. First, the Church was free to make eccles iastic appointments. Second, larger-than-normal amounts of money could o nly be collected with the consent of the king's feudal tenants. Third, n o freeman was to be punished except within the context of common law. M agna Carta, although a testament to John's complete failure as monarch, w as the forerunner of modern constitutions. John only signed the documen t as a means of buying time and his hesitance to implement its principl es compelled the nobility to seek French assistance. The barons offered t he throne to Philip II's son, Louis. John died in the midst of invasion f rom 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 Ch ronicle of the Kings of England: ". . .his works of piety were very man y . . . as for his actions, he neither came to the crown by justice, no r held it with any honour, nor left it peace."
Agatha De Ferrers 1 was born about 1168 in Of, Charltey, Staffordshire, E ngland. She married John "Lackland" King Of England in Unmarried.
They had the following children:
F i Joan Princess Of England
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# ID: I14311
# Name: John I 1 2
# Sex: M
# Title: King of England
# Birth: 24 Dec 1167 in Beumont Palace, Oxford, England 3 1 2
# Death: 19 Oct 1216 in Newark Castle, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England 3 1 2
Father: Henry II b: 5 Mar 1132/33 in Le Mans, Sarthe, France
Mother: Alinor\Eleanor de Aquitaine b: 1121 in Chateau de Belin, France
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Marriage 1 Isabella De Clare b: in Gloucester, England
* Married: 29 Aug 1189 in Marlebridge 1 2
Marriage 2 Isabella Taillefer b: ABT. 1186 in Angouleme, France
* Married: 24 Aug 1200 in Bordeaux 1 2
Children
1. Henry III b: 1 Oct 1207 in Winchester Castle, Winchester, Hampshi re, England
2. Richard b: 5 Jan 1208/09 in Winchester Castle, Winchester, Hampsh ire, England
3. Joane b: 22 Jul 1210 in Coucy, Alsne, France or Gloucester, Engla nd
4. Isabella\Elizabeth b: 1214 in Winchester Castle, Winchester, Hamp shire, England
5. Alianore\Eleanore b: 1215 in Winchester Castle, Winchester, Hamps hire, England
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JOHN I "Lackland" PLANTAGENET (King of England)
Born: 24 Dec 1166, Beaumont Palace, Oxford, England
Acceded: 27 May 1199, Westminster Abbey, London, England
Died: 18/9 Oct 1216, Newark Castle, Newark, Nottinghamshire
Buried: Worcester Cathedral
Notes: Signed the Magna Carta at Runnymede, 1215. Reigned 1199-1216. Hi s reign saw renewal of war with Phillip II Augustus of France to whom h e has lost several continental possesions including Normandy by 1205. H e came into conflict with his Barons and was forced to Sign the Magna C arta. His later repudiation of the charter led to the first barons war 1 215-17 during which John died. Burke says he was born in 1160. King of I reland 1177, Count of Mortain 1189, Earl of Gloucester. It is known tha t Agatha Ferrers was a mistress of John, but it is only supposition tha t she is the mother of Joan.
Father: HENRY II PLANTAGENET (King of England)
Mother: Eleanor of Aquitaine
Married 1: Isabella FITZRICHARD (C. Gloucester) 29 Aug 1189, Marlboroug h Castle, Wiltshire Divorce 1199
Married 2: Isabella of Angoulême (b. 1189 - d. 31 May 1246) (dau. of Ay mer Taillefer, Count of Angoulême, and Alice De Courtenay) 24 Jun/Aug 1 200, Bordeaux
Children:
1. HENRY III PLANTAGENET (King of England)
2. Richard PLANTAGENET (1º E. Cornwall)
3. Joan PLANTAGENET (Queen of Scotland)
4. Isabella PLANTAGENET (Empress of Germany)
5. Eleanor PLANTAGENET (C. Pembroke / C. Leicester)
Associated with: Agatha De FERRERS
Children:
6. Joan PLANTAGENET
Associated with: Clemence DAUNTSEY (wife of Henry Pinel)
Associated with: Suzanne PLANTAGENET
Children:
7. Richard FITZJOHN (B. Chilham)
Associated with: Hawise De TRACY
Children:
8. Oliver PLANTAGENET
9. Osbert GIFFORD (d. AFT 1216)
10. Geoffrey FITZROY
11. John FITZROY of Courcy (Knight or Clerk of Lincoln) (d. 1242)
12. Eudo FITZROY (d. ABT 1242)
13. Ivo FITZROY
14. Henry FITZROY
15. Richard FITZROY (Constable Wallingford Castle)
16. Matilda PLANTAGENET (Abbess of Barking)
17. Blanche (Isabella) PLANTAGENET
source:
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Children of John I- "Lackland"PLANTAGENET, of England and of Angouleme De Taillefer Isabella are:
- +Henry III Plantagenet, b. October 10, 1207, Winchester, Hampshire, England, GB10633, 10634, 10635, d. November 16, 1272, Westminster, London, England, GB10636, 10637, 10638.

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