King John PLANTAGENET

1166 - 1216  (49 years)

• Name	John PLANTAGENET
  Prefix	King
  Born	24 Dec 1166	Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Also Known As	LACKLAND
  Noteworthy	The baronial revolt at the end of John's reign led to the sealing of Magna Carta.
  Cause of Death	Dysentery
  Died	19 Oct 1216	Newark, Nottinghamshire, England
  Person ID	I46337	Main
  Last Modified	15 Dec 2023

  
  

  Father	King Henry PLANTAGENET, II,   b. 5 Mar 1133, Le Mans, Maine, Normandy [France] ,   d. 6 Jul 1189, Chinon, Indre-et-Loire, Centre, France  (Age 56 years)
  Mother	Queen Eleanor AQUITAINE,   b. Bef 1122, Chateau De Belen, Bordeau, Acquitaine, France ,   d. 31 Mar 1204, Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France  (Age > 82 years)
  Married	11 May 1152	Bordeaux, Gironde, Aquitaine, France
  Family ID	F28020	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Isabella ANGOULÊME,   b. Abt 1186,   d. 4 Jun 1246  (Age ~ 60 years)
  Married	24 Aug 1200	Angoulême, France
  Children	+ 1. King Henry PLANTAGENET, III,   b. 1 Oct 1207,   d. 16 Nov 1272  (Age 65 years) + 2. Mary Orr DINSMOOR,   b. 20 Aug 1723, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ulster, Northern Ireland ,   d. 27 Feb 1805, Londonderry, Rockingham, New Hampshire  (Age 81 years) + 3. Per PERSSON FLAGMAN,   b. 8 May 1734, Vetlanda, Jönköping, Sweden ,   d. 3 Jul 1817, Korsberga, Jönköping, Sweden  (Age 83 years) + 4. Sarah PORTER,   b. Abt 1741, Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut ,   d. 13 Sep 1777, Lebanon, New London, Connecticut  (Age ~ 36 years)
  Last Modified	4 Jul 2020
  Family ID	F32172	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Married - 24 Aug 1200 - Angoulême, France  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  m1 1189 Isabel of Gloucester, d/o William Fitz ROBERT; no children so he divorced her m2 1200 Isabelle (Angoulême) de Lusignan; 5 children mistresses: Clementia PINEL (b1165), Agatha Clementina Ferrers PINEL (b1160), ___ de WARENNE (b1166), Isabella FitxROBERT (b1160) —— Contemporary chroniclers were mostly critical of John's performance as king, and his reign has since been the subject of significant debate and periodic revision by historians from the 16th century onwards. Historian Jim Bradbury has summarized the current historical opinion of John's positive qualities, observing that John is today usually considered a "hard-working administrator, an able man, an able general". Nonetheless, modern historians agree that he also had many faults as king, including what historian Ralph Turner describes as "distasteful, even dangerous personality traits", such as pettiness, spitefulness, and cruelty. These negative qualities provided extensive material for fiction writers in the Victorian era, and John remains a recurring character within Western popular culture, primarily as a villain in films and stories depicting the Robin Hood legends. —— King John died suddenly from dysentery at the Bishop of Lincoln's castle at Newark in Nottinghamshire, on 19 October 1216.  He was buried in the Abbey Church of St. Peter in Worcester later that year in the choir before the high altar between the shrine of Wulfstan (d.1095), to the north, and another Worcester bishop-saint Oswald (d.992), to the south. In 1232 his remains were interred in a new tomb before the Worcester high altar in the presence of his son, King Henry III. His tomb was opened in 1529 and again in 1797. In 1529 the king's stone coffin and low-lying effigy slab were incorporated into a contemporary tomb-chest. King John's tomb today comprises a Purbeck marble effigy most likely dating from the 1232 reburial, and the sixteenth-century tomb-chest. His Worcester monument is important in several ways - it is the earliest surviving royal effigy in England, and the only example of an English royal effigy executed in Purbeck marble. [1, 2]

  
  

• Sources

  [S76] Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John,_King_of_England. [S151] WikiTree, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Plantagenet-143.