The Reign of King John

1. The Reign of King John 1199 -1216

2. “In Richard’s absence the odium for his exactions fell upon his ministers at home…”(McKechnie 1914: 20/21)

3. The odium formerly exhausting itself on the justiciars of Richard was now expended on John.” (McKechnie 1914: 21)

4. 1199 – 1206: The years in which John waged a losing war with the King of France

5. Angevin Empire 1172

7. 1206 – 1213: The quarrel with the Pope

8. 1206 – 1213: The quarrel with the Pope “The King , with the hot blood common to his race, and the bad judgment peculiar to himself, rushed headlong into a quarrel with Rome which he was incapable of carrying to a successful issue.” (McKechnie 1914: 24)

9. “On 13th May, 1213, John met Pandulf, the papal legate, and accepted unconditionally the same demands which he had refused contemptuously some months before.” (McKechnie 1914: 26)

10. 1213 – 1216: The great struggle with the barons

11. “If John had confined himself to home affairs, he might have postponed the final explosion: he could not, however, reconcile himself to the loss of the continental heritage of his ancestors.” (McKechnie 1914: 27)

12. “John’s strenuous endeavours to exact money and service, while failing to fill his Exchequer, had ripened dormant hostility into an active confederacy organized for resistance.”(McKechnie 1914: 31)

13. “On 5th May, the barons went through the ceremony of diffidatio, or formal renunciation of allegiance, a recognised feudal right, and not involving treason if justified by events and properly intimated to the overlord.” (McKechnie 1914: 3)