King John ("Lackland") I of England 
John, known as "Lackland", was born on December 24th, 1167 in Beaumont Palace, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. "Lackland"'s father was King Henry Curtmantle FitzEmpress ("Plantagenet") Plantagenet II of England and his mother was Princess Eleanor of Aquitaine. His paternal grandparents were Count Geoffrey ("the Fair", "le bon") Plantagenet IV or V of Anjou and Princess Adelaide (Lady of the English) of England; his maternal grandparents were William X of Aquitaine and Eleanor de Rochefoucauld Chatellerault. He had three sisters named Matilda, Eleanor and Joanna. He had a half-brother and three half-sisters, named William, Alix, Agnes and Mary. He died at the age of 48 on October 18th, 1216 in Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire, England. He was buried in Worcester Cathedral, Worcestershire, England.General Notes
King of England 4/6/1199 - 10/18/1216, crowned: Westminster Abbey 5/27/1199
lord of Ireland from 1177, count of Mortain from 1189 and duke of Normandy 1199-1203
HIST: JOHN WAS BORN ON CHRISTMAS EVE 1167, THE YOUNGEST SON TO HENRY II CURMANTLE AND ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE. HIS PARENTS DRIFTED APART AFTER HIS BIRTH, AND HIS YOUTH WAS DIVIDED BETWEEN HIS BROTHER'S HOUSE, WHERE HE LEARNED THE ART OF KNIGHTHOOD, AND
THE HOUSE OF HIS FATHER'S JUSTICIAR, RANULF GLANVILLE, WHERE HE LEARNED THE BUSINESS OF GOVERNMENT. AS THE 4TH SON, HE DID NOT INHERIT LANDS FROM HIS FATHER AND GAVE RISE TO HIS NICKNAME 'LACKLAND'. HIS FIRST MARRIAGE TO ISABEL OF GLOUCESTER
LASTED 10 YEARS AND WAS FRUITLESS. HIS SECOND WIFE, ISABELLA OF ANGOULEME BORE HIM TWO SONS, RICHARD AND HENRY III,AND THREE DAUGHTERS, ELEANOR, JOAN, AND ISABELLA. HE ALSO HAD AN ILLEGITIMATE DAUGHTER, ANOTHER JOAN, WHO MARRIED LLEWELLYN THE
GREAT, RULER OF ALL WALES, FROM WHICH THE TUDOR KINGS ARE DESCENDED.
HIST: THE ANGEVIN FAMILY FEUDS LEFT QUITE A MARK ON JOHN. HE PROVED HIS BETRAYAL TO BOTH HIS FATHER AND BROTHER. HE AND RICHARD CLASHED IN 1184, WHEN RICHARD REFUSED TO GIVE HIM AQUITAINE AS DICTATED BY THEIR FATHER. THE FOLLOWING YEAR, HENRY SENT
JOHN TO RULE IRELAND, BUT JOHN ALIENATED THE NATIVE IRISH AND THE TRANSPLANTED ANGLO-NORMANS AND JOHN RETURNED HOME AFTER SIX MONTHS. AFTER RICHARD'S SUCCESSION IN 1189, RICHARD GAVE JOHN VAST LANDS TO APPEASE HIM. THIS DID NOT WORK AND JOHN
TRIED TO OVERTHROW RICHARD'S ADMINISTRATORS DURING RICHARD'S GERMAN CAPTIVITY. HE CONSPIRED WITH PHILIP II, AND THAT ATTEMPT FAILED. UPON RICHARD'S RELEASE IN 1194, JOHN WAS FORCED TO SUE FOR PARDON, AND SPENT THE NEXT FIVE YEARS IN HIS
BROTHER'S SHADOW, ATTEMPTING TO GAIN FAVOR TO BE NAMED HEIR TO THE THRONE.
HIST: JOHN'S REIGN WAS FULL OF TROUBLE. A QUARREL WITH THE CHURCH RESULTED IN ENGLAND BEING PLACED UNDER AN INTERDICT IN 1207, WITH JOHN'S EXCOMMUNICATION TWO YEARS LATER. THE DISPUTE, ORIGINATING IN JOHN'S REFUSAL TO INSTALL THE PAPAL CANDIDATE,
STEPHEN LANGDON, AS ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. THIS WAS NOT RESOLVED UNTIL POPE INNOCENT III INTERCEDED.
HIST: A SUCCESSION DISPUTE WITH HIS NEPHEW, ARTHUR OF BRITTANY, RESULTED IN THE LOSS OF FRENCH TERRITORIES, AS THE FRENCH NOBLES FAVORED ARTHUR. BY 1205, JOHN WAS BACK IN ENGLAND AS HE LOST THE LAST OF HIS FRENCH HOLDINGS. FROM 1206 TO THE END OF
HIS REIGN, JOHN WAS PREOCCUPIED WITH REGAINING THESE LANDS, LEVYING HEAVY TAXES ON THE LANDED BARONS TO PAY FOR HIS CAMPAIGNS. THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN SATISFACTORY HAD JOHN BEEN WINNING BATTLES, BUT HE WAS CONTINUALLY TROUNCED BY THE FRENCH. THE
DISCONTENTED BARONS REVOLTED AND SEIZED LONDON IN MAY 1215. IN JUNE, AT RUNNYMEADE, JOHN SIGNED THE MAGNA CARTA, A FEUDAL RIGHTS DOCUMENT THAT STRESSED THREE POINTS:
HIST: 1)THE CHURCH WAS FREE TO MAKE ITS OWN APPOINTMENTS.
HIST: 2)NO MORE THAN THE NORMAL AMOUNT OF MONEY WOULD GIVEN TO RUN THE GOVERNMENT, UNLESS THE FEUDAL TENANTS GAVE THEIR CONSENT.
HIST: 3)NO FREEMAN WAS TO BE PUNISHED BY OTHER THAN THE COMMON LAW.
HIST: THIS DOCUMENT WAS FORERUNNER TO MADERN CONSTITUTIONS. JOHN SIGNED IT AS A MEANS OF BUYING TIME AND FAILED TO KEEP HIS WORD. THE BARONS APPEALED TO THE FRENCH AND JOHN DIED IN THE MIDST OF AN INVASION
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.~ 1000 in Chateau Landon, Seine-et-Marne, France d.01 Apr 1046 in Anjou, France
- b.1043 in Anjou, France d.14 Apr 1106 in Anjou, France
- b.1018 in Semurenbrionnais, Anjou, France d.18 Mar 1076 in Fleury-sur-Ouche, Anjou, France
- b.1092 in Anjou, France d.10 Nov 1143 in Jerusalem, Israel
- b.~ 1025 in Montfort Amaury, Ile De France, France d.1087
- b.~ 1059 in Montfort Amaury, Ile De France, France d.14 Feb 1117 in Fontevrault, , France
- b.~ 1030 in Evreux, Normandie
- b.24 Aug 1113 in Anjou, France d.07 Sep 1151 in Chateau, France
- b.1045 in Fleche, Sarthe, France d.1096
- b.~ 1060 in Maine, France d.11 Jun 1110
- b.~ 1032
- b.~ 1096 in Maine, France d.1126 in Maine, France
- b.~ 1026 in Aquitaine, France d.25 Sep 1086 in Chãateau De Chizay, Poitou, Aquitaine
- d.1097
- b.1049/1050 in Bourgogne d.> 1104
- b.05 Mar 1133 in Le Mans, Sarthe, France d.06 Jul 1189 in Chinon Castle, Anjou, Indre-et-Loire, France
- b.1003/1008 in Normandy, France d.22 Jun 1035 in Nicea, Bithynia, Turkey
- b.14 Oct 1028 in Falaise, Normandy, France d.09 Sep 1087 in Hermenbraville, Rouen, Normandie
- b.ABT 1003/1012 in Falaise, Normandy d.1050
- b.Sep 1068 in Selby, Yorkshire, England d.01 Dec 1135 in St. Denis-le-Fermont, Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France
- b.1002 in Flanders d.01 Sep 1067 in Lille, Duchy Of Lower
- b.~ 1031 in Flanders, France d.02 Nov 1083 in Caen, Normandie, France
- b.1003/1009 in France d.08 Jan 1079 in Monastáere De L'Ordre De St. Benoist, Messines, , France
- b.Aug 1102 in Winchester d.10 Sep 1167 in Rouen, Normandy, France
- b.ABT 1001/1013 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d.15 Aug 1040 in pitgaveny
- b.ABT 1031/1033 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d.13 Nov 1093 in Alnwick, Northumberland, England
- b.~ 1014 in Northumberland, England d.1040
- b.ABT 1079/1080 in Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland d.01 May 1118 in Westminster, Middlesex, England
- b.~ 1016 in Wessex, England d.1057 in London, Middlesex, England
- b.1042/1045 in Wessex, England d.16 Nov 1093 in Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Mid-Lothian, Scotland
- b.~ 1018 in Braunschweig, Prussia d.13 Jul 1024
- b.24 Dec 1167 in Beaumont Palace, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England d.18 Oct 1216 in Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire, England
- b.~ 0969 in Poitiers, Poitou, Aquitaine d.31 Jan 1030 in Abbey of St. Cyprian, France
- b.~ 1026 in Aquitaine, France d.25 Sep 1086 in Chãateau De Chizay, Poitou, Aquitaine
- b.~ 0987 in Bourgogne d.10 Nov 1068
- b.22 Oct 1071 in Aquitaine, France d.10 Feb 1126 in France
- b.1011 in France d.21 Mar 1076 in Fleury-Sur-Ouche, France
- b.1049/1050 in Bourgogne d.> 1104
- b.1018 in Semurenbrionnais, Anjou, France d.18 Mar 1076 in Fleury-sur-Ouche, Anjou, France
- b.1099 in Toulouse, France d.19 Apr 1137 in Spain
- b.~ 0990 in Toulouse, France d.1060 in St Sernin, Toulouse, Toulouse, France
- b.~ 1040 in Toulouse, France d.1093/1094 in Holy Land, Palestine
- b.ABT 1000/1010 in Toulouse, France d.16 Oct/Nov 1071
- b.~ 1073 in France d.28 Nov 1117/1118 in Anjou, France
- b.~ 1037 in Mortagne-au-Perche, Orne, Normandy, France d.8 Dec 1090/1095 in France
- b.~ 1052 in Mortaigne, S-Mnch, France
- b.~ 1041 in Mortagne, S-Mnch, France d.1107
- b.~ 1122 in Chãateau de Belin, Bordeaux, Aquitaine d.31 Mar 1204 in Poitiers, Poitou, Aquitaine
- b.1020 in Chatellerault, Vienne, France d.1075
- b.1050 in Chatellerault, Vienne, France
- b.1034 in Chatellerault, Vienne, France
- b.ABT 1075/1076 in Chatellerault, Vienne, France d.07 Nov 1151 in Notre Dame de Noyes, France
- b.1015 in Thouars, Deux-Sevres, France d.1093 in La Cheze, Borugogne, France
- b.1054 in Thouars, Deux-Sevres, France
- b.1017 in Moulcon or Meulson, Côte-d'Or, France
- b.1103 in Chatellerault, Poitou, France d.>Mar 1130
- b.1019 in Isle Bouchard, Indre-Et-Loire, Centre, France d.1083
- b.1049 in Isle Bouchard, France
- b.1023 in Isle Bouchard, France
- b.~ 1079 in Isle Bouchard, France d.> 1119
- b.1025 d.1086
- b.1053 in Isle Bouchard, France d.1109
- b.1033
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"Lackland" and Isabella were married in a religious ceremony on August 24th, 1200 in Bordeaux Cathedral, Gascony. They had two sons and two daughters, named Henry, Richard, Joan and Eleanor.
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Children
King Henry Plantagenet III of England
Henry was born on October 1st, 1207 in Winchester, Hampshire, England. He died at the age of 65 on November 16th, 1272 in Westminster, Middlesex, England. He was buried on November 20th, 1272 in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England.
Prince Richard Plantagenet of England
Richard was born on January 5th, 1209 in Winchester, Hampshire, England. He died due to natural causes at the age of 63 on April 2nd, 1272 in Berkhamsteadcast, Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire, England. He was buried on April 13th, 1272 in Hailes Abbey, Hailes, Gloucestershire, England.
Princess Eleanor Plantagenet of England
Eleanor was born in 1215 in Gloucester, England. She died at the age of 60 on April 13th, 1275 in Montargis Abbey, France.
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Children
Princess Joan of England
Joan was born about 1188 in London, Middlesex, England. She died in February 1237 in Aberconwy, Arllechwedd Isaf, Caernarvonshire, Wales. She was buried in Llan-faes, Dindaethwy, Anglesey, Wales.
"Lackland" and Suzanne Plantagenet were married in a religious ceremony. They had a son named Richard.
Source/Citation
British Kings and Queens @ p. 527
British Kings and Queens @ p. 527
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