Charles Ryland Scott Family

Ancestors and Descendants

Person Page 4,313

John I ("Lackland") Plantagenet, King Of England

M, b. 24 December 1166, d. 9 October 1216

Parents

FatherHenry II ("King Of England") Plantagenet (b. 5 March 1133, d. 6 July 1189)
MotherEleanor Of Aquitaine (b. 1122, d. 31 March 1204)

Child with Isabella Of Angouleme (b. 1189, d. 31 May 1246)

SonHenry III ("King Of England") Plantagenet+ (b. between 1 October 1206 and 007, d. 16 November 1272)
Pedigree Chart
Included in charts - listsBox Pedigree - CRS
Charles Ryland Scott Ancestors
Indented - CRS
Relationship to William the Conqueror
Relationship23rd great-grandfather of Charles Ryland ("Ryland") Scott
25th great-grandfather of Isaac Silas Vaughn
25th great-grandfather of Katherine Gilstrap Scott
25th great-grandfather of Joseph Ryland Scott
25th great-grandfather of Charles Parker ("Parker") Scott
25th great-grandfather of Orly Marie Vaughn
25th great-grandfather of Avital Catherine Vaughn

Person Exhibits

King John I

Biography

AnecdoteSigned the Magna Carta at Runnymede, 1215. Reigned 1199-1216. His reign saw renewal of war with Phillip II Augustus of France to whom he has lost several continental possesions including Normandy by 1205. He came into conflict with his Barons and was forced to Sign the Magna Carta. His later repudiation of the charter led to the first barons war 1215-17 during which John died. Burke says he was born in 1160. King of Ireland 1177, Count of Mortain 1189, Earl of Gloucester. It is known that Agatha Ferrers was a mistress of John, but it is only supposition that she is the mother of Joan.

John was nicknamed Lackland, probably because, as the youngest of Henry II's five sons, it was difficult to find a portion of his father's French possessions for him to inherit. He was acting king from 1189 during his brother Richard the Lion-Heart's absence on the Third Crusade. The legend of Robin Hood dates from this time in which John is portrayed as Bad King John. He was involved in intrigues against his absent brother, but became king in 1199 when Richard was killed in battle in France.

Most of his reign was dominated by war with France. Following the peace treaty of Le Goulet there was a brief peace, but fighting resumed again in 1202. John had lost Normandy and almost all the other English possessions in France to Philip II of France by 1204. He spent the next decade trying to regain these without success and was finally defeated by Philip Augustus at the Battle of Bouvines in 1214. He was also in conflict with the Church. In 1205 he disputed the pope's choice of Stephen Langton as archbishop of Canterbury, and Pope Innocent III placed England under an interdict, suspending all religious services, including baptisms, marriages, and burials. John retaliated by seizing church revenues, and in 1209 was excommunicated. Eventually, John submitted, accepting the papal nominee, and agreed to hold the kingdom as a fief of the papacy; an annual monetary tribute was paid to the popes for the next 150 years by successive English monarchs.

His repressive policies and ruthless taxation to fund the warin France brought him into conflict with his barons which became known as the Barons War. In 1215 rebel baron leaders marched on London where they were welcomed by an increasing band of defectors from John’s royalist supporters. Their demands were drawn up in a document which became the known as the Magna Carta. John sort peace and met them at Runnymede where on 15th June 1215 he agreed to their demands and sealed the Magna Carta. It was a remarkable document which set limits on the powers of the king, laid out the feudal obligations of the barons, confirmed the liberties of the Church, and granted rights to all freemen of the realm and their heirs for ever. It was the first written constitution.

His concessions did not buy peace for long and the Barons War continued. The barons sought French aid and Prince Louis of France landed in England supported by attacks from the North by Alexander II of Scotland. John fled and according to legend lost most of his baggage and the crown jewels when crossing the tidal estuaries of the Wash. He became ill with dysentery and died at Newark Castle in October 1216.
Birth24 December 1166John I ("Lackland") Plantagenet, King Of England, was born on 24 December 1166 in Oxford, EnglandBGO.
Death9 October 1216He died Newark Castle on 9 October 1216 at age 49 in Newark, Nottinghamshire, EnglandBGO.
BurialHe was buried.
Last Edited24 June 2018