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When did Richard die?
6 April 1199
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Who was the sole surviving son?
John
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Where was John crowned?
Westminster
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Whose army pressed up the Loire valley?
Arthur
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When did Philip summon John to attend court?
1202
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What was John summoned as?
Count of Poitou
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What principle did John's predecessors use?
vis et voluntas
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What quality did Henry II and Richard possess?
divine majesty
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What century were there contrary opinions expressed about the nature of kingship?
12th century
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What did John suffer from?
royal schizophrenia
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What happened at the start of John's reign?
sudden change in prices
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How long did the inflationary pressure continue?
13th century
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When did John address problems with the English currency?
1204 and 1205
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How did he address the problems with the English currency?
carrying out a radical overhaul of the coinage
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Who was Henry's favorite child?
John
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When was John appointed the Lord of Ireland?
1177
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When did Richard I become king?
1189
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Who unsuccessfully attempted a rebellion against Richard's royal administrators?
John
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Who was John's second wife?
Isabella of Angoulême
[ "John,_King_of_England\n\nThe character of John's relationship with his second wife, Isabella of Angoulême, is unclear. John married Isabella whilst she was relatively young – her exact date of birth is uncertain, and estimates place her between at most 15 and more probably towards nine years old at the time of her...
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Nicholas Vincent was described as what?
downright mean
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When did John have conjugal relationships with Isabella?
1207 and 1215
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How many children did John and Isabella have?
five children
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When did war with France break out?
1202
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When was John excommunicated?
1209
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When was the Magna Carta peace treaty agreed upon?
1215
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Who won victory over Louis and the rebel barons?
Henry III
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What prevented the departure of the planned 1205 expedition?
Baronial unrest in England
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When did Poitou depart?
1206
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Why did John divert south?
to counter a threat to Gascony from Alfonso VIII of Castile
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Why did Philip move south?
to meet John
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When was Henry crowned King of England?
1170
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What was Henry promised as part of his future inheritance?
Normandy and Anjou
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Who became the Duke of Brittany?
Geoffrey
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What was John's nickname?
Lackland
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How tall was John?
5 ft 5 in
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What did John build up?
travelling library of books
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Who became a connoisseur of jewels?
John
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What did John do in fits of rage?
biting and gnawing his fingers
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When did Hubert Walter die?
13 July 1205
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What lead to the king's excommunication?
a dispute with Pope Innocent III
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Who said Pope Innocent was an ambitious and aggressive religious leader?
historian Ralph Turner
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When did John make his first visit to Ireland?
1185
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How many knights accompanied John to Ireland?
300
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How did John offend the local Irish rulers?
making fun of their unfashionable long beards
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Who did Henry fight a short war with in 1183?
Richard
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How did Henry the Young King die?
dysentery
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Who became the Duke of Aquitaine in place of Richard?
John
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When did the war end?
1184
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When were the papal terms for submission accepted?
May 1213
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How many marks did John surrender?
1,000
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Where was the agreement formalised?
Bulla Aurea
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Who did John explore an alliance with?
French king Philip II
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What did John do when Richard did not return from his crusade?
assert that his brother was dead
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Who captured Richard?
Duke of Austria
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When did the king return to England?
1194
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Who refused to work with Puiset?
Longchamp
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When was Longchamp isolated in the Tower of London?
October 1191
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Where did Walter of Coutances return to?
England
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Where did the rebel barons congregate?
Northampton
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Who was the rebel baron leader?
Robert fitz Walter
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What did John instruct Langton to do?
organise peace talks with the rebel barons
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How long did the new peace last?
two years
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When was John's decision to marry Isabella?
August 1200
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John acquired key land between Poitou and where?
Gascony
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John moved south into where?
France
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Who renewed the anti-French alliances?
Baldwin IX of Flanders and Renaud of Boulogne
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When was the Treaty of Le Goulet negotiated?
May 1200
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What nickname did John's policy earn him?
John Softsword
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The rebel barons invited who to lead them?
French prince Louis
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Who was Henry II's granddaughter?
Blanche of Castile
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What did John do once he contained Alexander in Scotland?
he marched south to deal with the challenge of the coming invasion
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Who did John attempt to convince?
Pope Innocent III
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Where was Arthur imprisoned?
Falaise
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Who was kept imprisoned by John for many years?
Eleanor
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What victory strengthened John's position?
Mirebeau
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Who deserted John in favor of Philip?
William de Roches
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How was John's financial situation?
tenuous
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Who was declared the protector of Henry III after John's death?
William Marshal
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Who gave up their claim to the English throne?
Louis
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What agreement failed?
Magna Carta
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Until when did Henry III continue his attempts to reclaim Normandy?
1259
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What was one of John's principal challenges?
acquiring the large sums of money needed
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When did Richard sell many royal properties?
1189
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Where did John derive income from?
fines, court fees and the sale of charters and other privileges
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What was of particular importance to John?
administration of justice
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When was the system of coroners first introduced?
1194
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Why was John motivated?
potential of the royal legal process to raise fees
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When did new interpretations of John's reign begin to emerge?
1940s
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Who wrote an essay in 1945 that proposed a "new approach?"
Vivian Galbraith
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Who suggested that Ireland was less stable by 1216 than previously supposed?
Lewis Warren
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John was deeply suspicious of who?
the barons
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What famous knight was subjected to John's malevolentia?
William Marshal
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How many marks did De Braose refuse to pay?
40,000
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When did De Braose die?
1211
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Who did Henry II express his fury and ill-will towards?
Thomas Becket
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What was exacerbated by the tradition of Angevin royal ira et malevolentia?
the king to rely on his own men at the expense of the barons
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John had to additional ability to do what?
cripple his vassals
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John spent much of 1205 doing what?
securing England
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When did John recreate a version of Henry II's Assize of Arms?
1181
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How many knights out of ten would be mobilised?
one
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