• General Notes

  "Too late to be known as John the first, he's sure to be known as John the worst."
  
  John remarried, on 24 August 1200, Isabella of Angoulême, who was twenty years his junior. She was the daughter of Aymer Taillefer, Count of Angouleme. John had kidnapped her from her fiancé, Hugh X of Lusignan.
  
  John and Magna Carta
  
  John (reigned 1199-1216) was an able administrator interested in law and government but he neither trusted others nor was trusted by them. Heavy taxation, disputes with the Church (John was excommunicated by the Pope in 1209) and unsuccessful attempts to recover his French possessions made him unpopular. Many of his barons rebelled and in June 1215 they forced the King to sign a peace treaty accepting their reforms.
  
  This treaty, later known as Magna Carta, limited royal powers, defined feudal obligations between the King and the barons, and guaranteed a number of rights. The most influential clauses concerned the freedom of the Church; the redress of grievances of owners and tenants of land; the need to consult the Great Council of the Realm so as to prevent unjust taxation; mercantile and trading relationships; regulation of the machinery of justice so that justice be denied to no one; and the requirement to control the behaviour of royal officials. The most important clauses established the basis of habeas corpus ('you have the body'), i.e. that no one shall be imprisoned except by due process of law, and that 'to no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or delay right or justice'.
  
  The Charter also established a council of barons who were to ensure that the Sovereign observed the Charter, with the right to wage war on him if he did not. Magna Carta was the first formal document insisting that the Sovereign was as much under the rule of law as his people; and that the rights of individuals were to be upheld even against the wishes of the sovereign. As a source of fundamental constitutional principles, Magna Carta came to be seen as an important definition of aspects of English law, and in later centuries as the basis of the liberties of the English people.
  
  As a peace treaty Magna Carta was a failure and the rebels invited Louis of France to become their king. When John died in 1216 England was in the grip of civil war.
  
  Child of John I 'Lackland', King of England and Clementina
      * Joan b. b 1195, d. 1237
  
  Children of John I 'Lackland', King of England and Isabella d'Angoulême
      * Henry III, King of England+ b. 1 Oct 1207, d. 16 Nov 1272
      * Richard of Cornwall, Earl of Cornwall+ b. 5 Jan 1209, d. 2 Apr 1272
      * Joan of England b. 22 Jul 1210, d. 4 Mar 1238
      * Isabella of England+ b. 1214, d. 1 Dec 1241
      * Eleanor of England+ b. 1215, d. 13 Apr 1275
  
  Child of John I 'Lackland', King of England and unknown de Warenne
      * Richard Fitzroy, Baron of Chilham+ b. b 1216, d. fr 1245 - 1246
  
  Children of John I 'Lackland', King of England and Hawise de Tracy
      * Oliver d. 1290
      * Osbert Gifford d. 1216
      * Geoffrey FitzRoy d. 1205
      * John FitzJohn
      * Odo FitzRoy d. c 1242
      * Ivo
      * Henry
      * Richard of Wallingford
      * Isabella la Blanche
      * Matilda of Barking b. b 1216
  

Details of Lackland's family with Isabella Taillefer of Angouleme

Details of Lackland's family with de Warenne

Details of Lackland's family with Clementina