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Account about opening King John's tomb
Report, BookIn 1797 the tomb of King John at Worcester Cathedral was opened at the prompting of the engraver Valentine Green (1739–1...
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Account of King John’s reign in John Lydgate’s Ver...
Manuscript, Artwork Created date: 1450-99King John has frequently been characterised as a bad king, even in the Middle Ages. This poem on the kings of England, t...
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Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous...
Book Created date: 1563First published in 1563, John Foxe’s Actes and Monuments was a Protestant martyrology and history of the Christian Churc...
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Bull of Innocent III taking England under his prot...
Manuscript, Seal Created date: 1214Fearing that he would be threatened with papal support for a French invasion of England, in 1213 King John made peace wi...
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Canterbury seal press
Object Created date: c. 1232Contrary to popular belief, Magna Carta was sealed, not signed. King John, like other medieval kings, authenticated his...
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Charter of King John to Robert of Braybrooke
Charter, Manuscript, Seal Created date: 1208Robert of Braybrooke (1168–1210) was listed by the chronicler Roger of Wendover (d. 1236) as one of King John’s evil cou...
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Chronicon Anglicanum
Manuscript Created date: 1200-99After Archbishop Hubert Walter’s death in 1205 and the rejection of other nominees to the see of Canterbury, the monks o...
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Coronation charter of Henry I
Charter, Manuscript Created date: 1100The granting of a charter of liberties by King John in 1215 (subsequently known as Magna Carta) was not without preceden...
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Dialogue of the Exchequer
Manuscript Created date: 1200-99Richard fitz Nigel (1130-98), Bishop of Ely and author of The Dialogue of the Exchequer, has been described as a model c...
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Double-edged sword
Object Created date: c. 1250-1330This sword is typical of those that would have been wielded by European knights in the 13th century. Weighing 1.2 kg (2 ...
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Earthenware flatback depicting John signing Magna...
Object Created date: estimated 1850Flatbacks were mantelpiece decorations, produced in vast numbers in Staffordshire from the 1830s until the beginning of ...
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Engraving of Stephen Langton showing the Coronatio...
Artwork Created date: 1833This engraving by John George Murray depicts a scene in which Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury (1150-1228), pur...
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Gerald of Wales's The Conquest of Ireland
Manuscript Created date: c.1196 -1223John first experienced warfare in 1185 when, aged just 17, he was sent by his father, King Henry II (r. 1154–89) on an u...
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Great Seal of King John
Object, Seal Created date: 1203Attached to this charter is one of the best-preserved impressions of the Great Seal of King John. John appears seated on...
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Handkerchief depicting the signing of Magna Carta
Object Created date: 1785 - 1800This handkerchief, made towards the end of the 18th century and measuring a vast 690 × 760 mm (27 × 30 in.), reputedly c...
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