Magna Carta

Contrast who Henry II’s Coronation Charter and Magna Carta were for

Charter opens Henry King of the English

Magna Carta is a British document

During an 1194 quarrel between the King of Munster and his sons…

John gained Limerick, placing an English landholding in the mouth of the Shannon

Clause 59

If we have disseised or dispossessed Welshmen of lands… those things are to be immediately restored

How did the recording of debts in the pipe roll change and suggest one possible reason for this

Recorded in a singular block

Chancellor Hubert Walter died at the same time Normandy fell

How did Henry I violate his own Coronation Charter?

1101 agreement with the Count of Flanders was not result of judgment by peers

What did John tell papal envoys?

acknowledged pope as spiritual father

authority did not apply to earthly affairs

Give two examples John gave of the king being involved in the appointment of archbishops

Legend of St Wulfstan’s staff

Thomas Becket

give an example of a maxim that re-emerged because of the 12th century renaissance

the prince is free from the laws

Angevin rulership was ambitious and steeped in tradition, two traits…

that made good kings but also made the dynasty easy to attack

Why was baronial support of John’s actions in Normandy limited

only 7 of the 70 leading families in Warwickshire and Leicestershire held land in Normandy

Name two things John shut down between 1209 and 1214

Common bench at Westminster

Judicial eyres in the counties

Johns revenues between 1209 and 1214…

were running 25% higher than Henry I in 1130

Between 1199 and 1208 Baron indebtness to the crown…

increased by 380%

Holt (2003)

1215 rebellion was a rebellion of the kings debtors

What impacted how John felt about the Bishopric at St David’s?

Relationship with Canterbury

Why were the unfree considered in Magna Carta

Barons did not rule in lordly isolation

Why was John so quick to sign Magna Carta?

Before the names of the 25 barons could be added

Give 2 consequences of Johns sending envoys to the Pope in July

Bull condemning Magna Carta arrived in September

Langton was suspended for refusing to excommunicate barons

What did the barons do during their September Great Assembly

Deposed John and offered crown to eldest son of French king

Clause 1

that the English Church is to be free, and to have its full rights and its liberties intact

Clause 10

If anyone has taken a loan from Jews… the debt is not to incur interest

Clause 35

there is to be one measure of wine through all our kingdom

Clause 61

twenty-five barons of the kingdom…to be observed the peace and liberties which we have granted them

Clause 39

No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or in any way ruined … except by the lawful judgement of his peers or the law of the land

Carpenter (2003)

“The restrictions placed by Magna Carter on the workings of kingship were unprecedented and profound”

What legislation bought in the requirement of 15 barons to oversee the king?

1257 provisions of oxford

What did the first statute of Westminster do?

codifies existing laws into 51 clear chapters