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  King John
  Personal Details:
  Name: John Plantagenet
  Title(s)
  Date of birth: December 24, 1166
  Place of birth: Beaumont Palace, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
  Date of death: October 19, 1216
  Age at death: 50
  Place of death: Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire, England
  Cause of death: Natural Causes
  Burried at: Worcester Cathedral, Hereford and Worcester, England
  Father: King Henry II
  Mother: Eleanor of Aquitaine
  Other Information: Biography
  Marriages: August 24, 1200: At age 34 married Isabel of Angouleme, age 15
  August 29, 1189: At age 23 married Isabel of Gloucester, age 20
  Events
  May 27, 1199
  Coronation
  Westminster Abbey, London, England
  Children:
  With Isabel of Angouleme
  Eleanor Plantagenet
  Isabel Plantagenet
  Joan Plantagenet
  King Henry III
  Richard Plantagenet, Earl of Cornwall and King of the Romans
  Joan Plantagenet
  John 1199-1216
  John was born in 1167. He married Hadwisa (Isabella) of Gloucester, whom he divorced and Isabella of Angouleme, who survived him. His children were all from his second marriage: Henry, Richard, Joan, Isabella and Eleanor.
  John was a very spoilt and selfish person. He continually conspired against the people who cared for him and treachorously conspired with the King of France to bring about his brother, Richard's downfall.
  His father called him Lackland, due to the fact that by the time he was born, the King had already apportioned out all his lands to the elder children. John managed to retain that name, through his reign, by losing the land of Normandy through incompetence. A military defeat in Flanders lead to such
  a weakening of Englands position, that the Barons were forced to call in the armies of the Dauphin
  of France. A civil war followed and it was then that John truly lost his crown and his treasures.
  He is famed for the signing of the document, the 'Magna Carta'. This legendary paper has the
  significance of phrases enshrining general principles of justice. The signing of it was a major event.
  John divorced his first wife, and a year after his succession to the throne, chanced upon the 12 year old Isabella of Angouleme. She was already betrothed but he managed to persuade her to marry him and she was later crowned Queen of England. Their children were all married off to people of great distinction, whatever regard they may have held for King John. His wife was later to betray him politically, and after his death went to marry her first love. John died of dysentry, and his son Henry came to be his successor at the age of nine.

Details of (King) John I's family with Isabella TAILLEFER