John "Soft Sword" 
John "Soft was born on December 24th, 1167 in Beaumont Palace, Oxford, England. John "Soft's father was Henry II "FitzEmpress" Plantagenet and his mother was Eleanor d'Aquitaine et Poitou. His paternal grandparents were Geoffrey V "le Bon" Plantagenet and Maud; his maternal grandparents were William of Poitou and Eleanor Rochefoucauld. He had four brothers and three sisters, named William, Henry, Richard I, Geoffrey, Eleanor, Joan and Matilda. He had four half-brothers and four half-sisters, named Geoffrey, Bishop of Durham, William, Philippe II Auguste of, Abbess of Barking, Alix, Marguerite of and Marie. He died due to dysentery, though some say he was poisoned at the age of 48 on October 19th, 1216 in Neward, Nottinghamshire, England. He was buried in Worcester Cathedral, Worcester, England.General Notes
King John "Lackland" Plantagenet of England
Born: 24-Dec-1166
Died: 18-Oct-1216
Occupation: 15th Duke Normany
King of England
Comments: Birth: 24 DEC 1166 in Kings Manor House,Oxford,Oxfordshire,England
Death: 18 OCT 1216 in ENG
Burial: Abt 20 OCT 1216 ,Worcester,,ENG
"Too late to be known as John the first, he's sure to be known as John the worst."
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 ma
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 t
grip of civil war.
Marriage 1 M (Concubine 5) WARRENE
Marriage 2 Agatha DE FERRERS b: ABT 1168 in Of, Charltey, Staffordshire, England
Children
Joan PLANTAGENET b: ABT 1186
Marriage 3 Clemence DAUNTSEY b: ABT 1162 in (Unknown), England
Marriage 4 Agatha FERRERS
Children
Joan of ENGLAND b: ABT 1188
Marriage 5 Isabel FITZROBERT
Married: 29 Aug 1189
Divorced: 1200
Divorced:
Marriage 6 Isabella TAILLEFER of Angouleme b: ABT 1180 in Angouleme, France
Married: 24 Aug 1200 in Bordeaux, France
Children
Henry III King of England b: 10 Oct 1206 in Winchester
Joan PLANTAGENET b: 22 Jul 1210
Eleanor PLANTAGENET b: 1215 in Westminster, Hampshire
Richard PLANTAGENET , Duke of Cornwall b: 5 Jan 1208/09 in
Marriage 7 Isabella DE TAILLEFER b: ABT 1188 in of, Angouleme, Charente, France
Married: 26 Aug 1200 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France 1
Children
HENRY III PLANTAGENET , King of England b: 1 Oct 1207 in Winchester, Hampshire, England
Richard PLANTAGENET , Prince of England b: 5 Jan 1208/09 in Winchester, Hampshire, England
Joane PLANTAGENET , Princess of England b: 22 Jul 1210 in Coucy, Alsne, France
Isabel PLANTAGENET , Princess of England b: 1214 in of, Winchester, Hampshire, England
Eleanor PLANTAGENET , Princess of England b: 1215 in Winchester, Hampshire, England
King John "Lackland"'s Family
Spouse: Isabella Taillefer of Angouleme (Married)
Children: King Henry III of England
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Parents: King Henry II "Curt Mantel" of England, Eleanor of Aquitaine
Siblings:
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John had at least 12 illegitimate children.
John was the 5th son of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine and was always his father's favorite son.
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Required to sign the Magna Carta on June 15, 1215.
Angevin
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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.~ 1004 in Gatnois, France d.01 Apr 1046 in Anjou, France
- b.~ 1043 in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France d.14 Apr 1109 in Anjou, France
- b.~ 1018 in Anjou, France d.18 MAR 1075/76 in assassinated in Fleury-sur-Ouche, Normandy, France
- b.BET 1090 AND 1092 in Anjou, France d.10 Nov 1143 in Acre, Jerusalem, Israel
- b.~ 1025 in Hainault, Montfort, France d.1087 in St Thomas, Eperon, Normandy, France
- b.BET 1059 AND 1060 in Montfort-l'Amaury Castle, Ile-de-France, France d.14 FEB 1116/17 in Monastery at Fontevrault, Poitiers, France
- b.BET 1038 AND 1048 in Evreux, Normandy, France d.UNKNOWN
- b.24 Aug 1113 in Anjou, France d.07 Sep 1151 in Chateau-du-Luoir, Eure-et-Loire, France
- b.~ 1042 d.UNKNOWN
- b.BET 1060 AND 1062 d.11 Jun 1110
- b.BET 1030 AND 1044 d.UNKNOWN
- b.BET 1090 AND 1097 in Fleche, Sarthe, Maine, France d.1126 in Maine, France
- b.BET 937 AND 949 in Aquitaine, France d.3 APR 995 in St. Maixent, Poitou, France
- d.1097
- b.BET 945 AND 951 in Paris, France d.1004
- b.25 Mar 1133 in Le Mans, Sarthe, France d.1189 in Chinon Castle, Indre-et-Loire, Anjou, France
- b.~ 1008 in Normandy, France d.02 Jul 1035 in Nice, Bithynia
- b.14 Oct 1028 in Falaise, Calvados, Normandy, France d.10 Sep 1087 in Hermenbraville, Rouen, Normandy
- b.~ 1012 in Falaise, Normandy, France d.BET 1050 AND 1060 in Mortaigne, S-Mnch, France
- b.~Sep 1068 in Selby, Yorkshire, England d.01 Dec 1135 in Lyons-la-Forat, Normandy, France
- b.1012 in Lille d.10 Sep 1067 in Lille, France
- b.BET 1031 AND 1032 in Flanders d.02 Nov 1083 in Caen, Calvados, France
- b.~ 1003 in France d.1 JAN 1078/79 in Monastere de L'Order de St. Benoist, Messines, France
- b.05 Aug 1102 in Winchester, Hampshire, England d.10 Sep 1169 in Notre Dame, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Normandy
- b.~ 1013 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d.14 Aug 1040 in Iona, Near Elgin, Scotland (killed by MacBeth)
- b.BET 1031 AND 1033 in Scone Abbey, Atholl, Perthsire, Scotland d.13 Nov 1093 in Alnwick Castle, Berwickshire, Scotland
- b.BET 1010 AND 1014 in Northumbria, England d.1040
- b.~ 1082 in Scotland d.01 May 1118 in Winchester, Hampshire, England
- b.~ 1016 in Wessex, England d.1057 in London, England
- b.1045 in Hungary d.16 Nov 1093 in Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Mid-Lothian, Scotland
- b.~ 1018 in Szekesfehervar, Hungary d.13 Jul 1054
- b.24 Dec 1167 in Beaumont Palace, Oxford, England d.19 Oct 1216 in Neward, Nottinghamshire, England
- d.UNKNOWN
- b.BET 1021 AND 1026 in Poitiers, Aquitaine, France d.25 Sep 1086
- b.BET 987 AND 995 in Bourgogne, France d.10 Nov 1068 in Italy
- b.22 Oct 1071 in Poitou, Aquitaine, France d.10 FEB 1125/26 in Poitou, Aquitaine, France
- b.~ 1011 in Meulan, Ile-de-France, France d.21 MAR 1075/76 in Fleury-sur-Ouche, Burgundy, France
- b.BET 1030 AND 1050 in Dijon, Cote-D'Or, Bourgogne, France d.> 1104
- b.~ 1018 in Anjou, France d.18 MAR 1075/76 in assassinated in Fleury-sur-Ouche, Normandy, France
- b.1099 in Toulouse/Aquitaine, France d.19 Apr 1137 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- b.BET 990 AND 1000 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France d.BET 1060 AND 1061 in St. Sernin, Toulouse, France
- b.~ 1040 in Toulouse, France d.1094 in killed in battle in Huesca, Spain
- b.BET 1000 AND 1010 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France d.16 Oct 1071 in Murdered by stepson, Pierre Raimond of Barcelona
- b.> 1080 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France d.1118 in Abbey of Fontevrault, Anjou, France
- b.BET 1030 AND 1031 in Normandy, France d.08 Dec 1090
- b.1058 in Mortaigne, France d.~ 1080 in Toulouse, France
- b.BET 1039 AND 1050 in Montgomery, France d.1082
- b.1122 in Chateau de Belin, Gironde, Aquitaine, France d.01 Apr 1204 in Mirabell Castle, Forntevrault, Anjou, France
- b.~ 1008 in Chatellerault, Vienne, Poitou, France d.1075
- b.~ 1050 in Turenne, Vienne, France d.1091 in Jerusalem, Holy Land
- b.~ 1024 d.1069
- b.BET 1075 AND 1077 in Chatellerault, Vienne, France d.07 Nov 1151 in As Monk at Notre Dame De Noyers
- b.~ 1024 d.~ 1093
- b.BET 1050 AND 1060 in Thouars, Deux Sevres, France d.1109
- b.~ 1039 d.UNKNOWN
- b.BET 1103 AND 1105 in Chatellerault, Vienne, France d.> 1130
- b.1019 in Isle Bouchard, France d.< 1084
- b.1049 in Isle Bouchard, France d.UNKNOWN
- b.1023 in Isle Bouchard, France d.UNKNOWN
- b.1079 in Isle Bouchard, France d.> 1119 in Poitiers, France
- b.1053 in Isle Bouchard, France d.UNKNOWN
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John "Soft and Countess of were married in a religious ceremony on August 29th, 1189 in Marlborough Castle, Wiltshire, England. Their marriage was annulled in 1200.
John "Soft and Isabella were married in a religious ceremony on August 24th, 1200 in Bordeaux Cathedral, Gascony. They had two sons and three daughters, named Henry III of, Richard of, Eleanor of, Isabella of and Joan of.
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Children
Henry III of England
Henry III of was born on October 10th, 1206 in Winchester, Hampshire, England. He died at the age of 66 on November 16th, 1272 in Westminster Palace, London, England. He was buried on November 20th, 1272 in Westminster Abbey, London, England.
Richard of England
Richard of was born in Winchester Castle, England. He died on April 2nd, 1272 in Berkhamsted Castle, Hertfordshire, England. He was buried in Hayles Abbey.
They had a son named Richard.
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Children
Richard FitzRoy
Richard was born about 1186 in Chilham Castle, Kent, England. He died on August 6th, 1270.
They had a daughter named Joan of.
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Children
Joan of England
Joan of was born about 1188 in Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire, England. She died in Court of Aberconway, North Wales. She was buried on March 30th, 1237 in Llanfaes Priory, Anglesey, Wales.
John "Soft and Hawise were married in a religious ceremony in Not married. They had a son named Oliver.
John "Soft and Mistress or were married in a religious ceremony in Not married. They had seven sons and two daughters, named Osbert, Bartholomew, Eudes, Geoffrey, Henry, John, Philip, Isabel and Maud.
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