TY  - BOOK
AU  - Church,Stephen
TI  - King John: England, Magna Carta and the making of a tyrant 
SN  - 9780230772458 (hbk.) :
AV  - DA208 
U1  - 920 JOH 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - London
PB  - Macmillan
KW  - John,
KW  - Magna Carta
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - John, 1199-1216
KW  - Kings and rulers
KW  - Biography
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - No English king has suffered a worse press than King John: but how to disentangle legend and reality? The youngest of the five sons of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, the empire builders of the Angevin dynasty, John had small hope of securing any significant inheritance. Then, in 1199, on the death of his older brother Richard, John took possession of the vast Angevin lands in England and on the continent. But by his death in 1216, he had lost almost all that he inherited, and had come perilously close to losing his English kingdom, too. Drawing on thousands of contemporary sources, Stephen Church tells John's story - from boyhood and the succession crises of his early adulthood, to accession, rebellion and civil war. In doing so, he reveals exactly why John's reign went so disastrously wrong and how John's failure led to the great cornerstone of Britain's constitution: Magna Carta
ER  -