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Magna Carta Cotton MS. Augustus II. 106, one of four surviving exemplifications of the 1215 text Created 1215 ; 810 years ago (1215) Location Two at the British Library ; one each in Lincoln Castle and in Salisbury Cathedral Author(s) John, King of England His barons Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury Purpose Peace treaty Full text Magna Carta at Wikisource Part of the Politics series ...
"The Magna Carta Manifesto (Review)". Insight Turkey. 12 (2). "The Charter of the Forest of King Henry III". St John's College, Oxford; Harris, Carolyn (17 December 2013). "Charter of the Forest". Magna Carta Canada. Archived from the original on 6 November 2020. The Woodland Trust (2017). "Charter for Trees, Woods and People".
The nineteenth-century historians Frederick Maitland and Frederick Pollock considered it a landmark document [1] in English legal history and a forerunner of Magna Carta. The document addressed abuses of royal power by his predecessor William II (his brother William Rufus), as perceived by the nobility, specifically the over-taxation of the ...
Eustace de Vesci (1169–1216) was an English lord of Alnwick Castle, and a Magna Carta surety. [1] He also held lands in Sprouston, Roxburghshire, Scotland as brother in-law to King Alexander II of Scotland. Eustace was a leader during the Barons' War in 1215 and was killed while undertaking a siege of Barnard Castle in 1216.
Arms displayed by Henry de Loundres as Archbishop of Dublin, at the signing of Magna Charta. Henry de Loundres [1] (died 1228) was an Anglo-Norman churchman who was Archbishop of Dublin from 1213 to 1228. [2] He was an influential figure in the reign of John of England, an administrator and loyalist to the king.
He was one of the twenty-five barons appointed to enforce the observance of Magna Carta, and as a prominent member of the party was excommunicated by the pope in 1216. He supported Louis VIII of France both before and after John's death, and fighting at Lincoln against William Marshal on 20 May 1217 was then taken prisoner.