See also:JOHN (1167–1216)
, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:England, the youngest son of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry II. by Eleanor of See also:Aquitaine, was See also:born at See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford on the 24th of See also:December 1167
.
He was given at an See also:early See also:age the nick-name of Lackland because, unlike his See also:elder See also:brothers, he received no apanage in the See also:continental provinces
.
But his future was a subject of anxious thought to Henry II
.
When only five years old See also:John was betrothed (1173) to the heiress of Maurienne and See also:Savoy, a principality which, as dominating the See also:chief routes from See also:France and See also:Burgundy to See also:Italy, enjoyed a consequence out of all proportion to its See also:area
.
Later, when this See also:plan had fallen through, he was endowed with castles, revenues and lands on both sides of the channel; the vacant earldom of See also:Cornwall was reserved for him (117J); he was betrothed to See also:Isabella the heiress of the earldom of See also:Gloucester (1176); and he was granted the lordship of See also:Ireland with the See also:homage of the Anglo-Irish baronage (1177)
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Henry II. even provoked a See also:civil See also:war by attempting to See also:transfer the duchy of Aquitaine from the hands of See also:Richard Coeur de See also:Lion to those of John (1183)
.
In spite of the incapacity which he displayed in this war, John was sent a little later to govern Ireland (1185); but he returned in a few months covered with disgrace, having alienated the loyal chiefs by his childish insolence and entirely failed to defend the settlers from the hostile septs
.
Remaining henceforth at his See also:father's See also:side he was treated with the utmost See also:indulgence
.
But he joined with his See also:brother Richard and the See also:French king See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip See also:Augustus in the See also:great See also:conspiracy of 1189, and the See also:discovery of his See also:treason See also:broke the See also:heart of the old king (see HENRY II.)
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Richard on his See also:accession confirmed John's existing possessions; married him to Isabella of Gloucester; and gave him, besides other grants, the entire revenues of six See also:English shires; but excluded him from any See also:share in the regency which was appointed to govern England during the third crusade; and only allowed him to live in the See also:kingdom because urged to this concession by their See also:mother
.
Soon after the king's departure for the See also:Holy See also:Land it became known that he had designated his See also:nephew, the See also:young See also:Arthur of See also:Brittany, as his successor
.
John at once began to intrigue against the regents with the aim of securing England for himself
.
He picked a See also:quarrel with the unpopular See also:chancellor See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Longchamp (q.v.), and succeeded, by the help of the barons and the Londoners, in expelling this See also:minister, whose chief See also:fault was that of fidelity to the absent Richard
.
' Not being permitted to succeed Longchamp as the See also:head of the See also:administration, John next turned to Philip Augustus for help
.
A bargain was struck; and when Richard was captured by See also:Leopold, See also:duke of See also:Austria (December 1192), the See also:allies endeavoured to prevent his See also:release, and planned a See also:partition of his dominions
.
They were, however, unable to win either English or See also:Norman support and their schemes collapsed with Richard's return (See also:March 1194)
.
He magnanimously pardoned his brother, and they lived on not unfriendly terms for the next five years
.
On his deathbed Richard, See also:reversing his former arrangements, caused his barons to swear fealty to John (1199), although the hereditary claim of Arthur was by the See also:law of See also:primogeniture undoubtedly See also:superior
.
England and See also:Normandy, after some hesitation, recognized John's See also:title; the See also:attempt of See also:Anjou and Brittany to assert the rights of Arthur ended disastrously by the See also:capture of the young See also:prince at Mirebeau in See also:Poitou (1202)
.
But there was no See also:part of his dominions in which John inspired See also:personal devotion
.
Originally accepted as a See also:political See also:necessity, he soon came to be detested by the See also:people as a See also:tyrant and despised by the nobles for his cowardice and See also:sloth
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He inherited great difficulties—the See also:feud with France, the dissensions of the continental provinces, the growing indifference of England to See also:foreign conquests, the discontent of all his subjects with a strict executive and severe See also:taxation
.
But he cannot be acquitted of personal responsibility for his misfortunes
.
Astute in small matters, he had no breadth of view or foresight; his policy was continually warped by his passions or caprices; he flaunted vices of the most sordid See also:kind with a cynical indifference to public See also:opinion, and shocked an age which was far from See also:tender-hearted by his ferocity to vanquished enemies
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He treated his most respectable supporters with See also:base ingratitude, reserved his favour for unscrupulous adventurers, and gave a See also:free See also:rein to the See also:licence of his mercenaries
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While possessing considerable gifts of mind and a latent fund of See also:energy, he seldom acted or reflected until the favourable moment had passed
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Each of his great humiliations followed as the natural result of crimes or blunders
.
By his See also:divorce from Isabella of Gloucester he offended the English baronage (1200); by his See also:marriage with Isabella of See also:Angouleme, the betrothed of See also:Hugh of See also:Lusignan, he gave an opportunity to the discontented Poitevins for invoking French assistance and to Philip Augustus for pronouncing against him a See also:sentence of See also:forfeiture
.
The See also:murder of Arthur (1203) ruined his cause in Normandy and Anjou; the See also:story that the See also:court of the peers of France condemned him for the murder is a See also:fable, but no legal See also:process was needed to convince men of his See also:guilt
.
In the later quarrel with See also:Innocent III
.
(1207–1213; see See also:LANGTON,
See also:STEPHEN) he prejudiced his See also:case by proposing a worthless favourite for the primacy and by plundering those of the See also:clergy who bowed to the See also:pope's sentences
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Threatened with the See also:desertion of his barons he drove all whom he suspected to desperation by his terrible severity towards the See also:Braose See also:family (1210); and by his continued misgovernment irrevocably estranged the See also:lower classes
.
When submission to See also:Rome had somewhat improved his position he squandered his last resources in a new and unsuccessful war with France (1214), and enraged the feudal classes by new claims for military service and scutages
.
The barons were consequently able to exact, in Magna Carta (See also:June 1215), much more than the redress of legitimate grievances; and the people allowed the See also:crown to be placed under the See also:control of an oligarchical See also:committee
.
When once the See also:sovereign See also:power had been thus divided, the natural consequence was civil war and the intervention of the French king, who had See also:long watched for some such opportunity
.
John's struggle against the barons and Prince See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis (1216), afterwards King Louis VIII., was the most See also:credit-able See also:episode of his career
.
But the calamitous situation of England at the moment of his See also:death, on the 19th of See also:October 1216, was in the See also:main his See also:work; and while he lived a See also:national reaction in favour of the See also:dynasty was out of the question
.
John's second wife, Isabella of Angouleme (d
.
1246), who married her former See also:lover, Hugh of Lusignan, after the English king's death, See also:bore the king two sons, Henry III. and Richard, See also:earl of Cornwall; and three daughters, See also:Joan (1210-1238), wife of See also:Alexander II., king of See also:Scotland, Isabella (d
.
1241), wife of the See also:emperor See also:Frederick II., and Eleanor (d
.
1274), wife of William See also:Marshal, earl of See also:Pembroke, and then of See also:Simon de See also:Montfort, earl of See also:Leicester
.
John had also two illegitimate sons, Richard and See also:Oliver, and a daughter, Joan or See also:Joanna, who married See also:Llewelyn I. ab Iorwerth, prince of See also:North See also:Wales, and who died in 1236 or 1237
.
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