King John Research Paper

Born in Beaumont Palace, Oxford December 24, 1166 King John was the youngest son of King Henry II and Eleanor. John was Henry's most loved child however Henry was not give him everything else he could offer to his other four sons. As a child he was always forgotten about and overshadowed by his older brothers. When his father first split up the provinces to all of his five sons, John received no share therefore he received the nickname “Lackland”. He grew up among family problems and fights, and witness his mother being his father's prisoner during his teenage years. John, like his father developed violent rages which led him to do things that in his right mind he wouldn’t had done. In 1176 John got engaged to Isabella, a rich coheiress

The pope banned John and put England under a church law that expressed that no initiating or marriage would be lawful until the time the pope said that they would be ( History Learning Site 1) . John prepared an attack against King Philip, in 1214 he led an army Poitou and Anjou. John had some success but Philip counterattacked back and made King John lose all his hopes of ever getting Normandy and Anjou back to his ruling power. This defeat made everyone doubt him back at home, his prestige became a really bad reputation, some say worst than his father's. His abusive strategies and savage tax assessment to support the war in France carried him into struggle with his noblemen which got to be known as the Barons War. In 1215 nobleman pioneers walked on London where they were invited by an expanding band of defectors from John's royalist supporters. Their requests were attracted up an archive whichturned into the known as the Magna Carta. John sort peace and met them at Runnymede where on fifteenth June 1215 he consented to their requests and fixed the Magna Carta. It was a noteworthy archive which set cutoff points on the forces of the ruler, laid out the primitive commitments of the nobles, affirmed the freedoms of the Church, and allowed rights to all freemen of the domain and their beneficiaries for