It was one of the key gripes that drove England's barons to negotiate the Magna Carta with King John in 1215. Sponsor Message The Magna Carta is considered one of the great legal documents in the ...

"In 1215, it was revolutionary for a king to say that not even he was above the law. Of course, King John did not actually want to issue this document. He was at war with English barons ...

"The Magna Carta — was it a document signed at Runnymede in 1215 by King John pledging independence to the English barons, or was it a piece of chewing gum on a bedspread in Dorset? The latter ...

William the Marshal acted as guardian. In 1215 at the invitation of the English barons the French dauphin, who would be Louis VIII, had invaded England. The barons, completely fed up with John ...

By 1215, he faced turmoil because his feudal barons—overburdened by taxes and upset at the loss of their Norman possessions after a disastrous war against King Philip II of France—openly ...

The result of his efforts came on 15 June 1215, when all parties met at Runnymead. The resulting peace treaty took the form of a spidery document called the Articles of the Barons. Over the follow ...

Drawing resolve from the 1215 heroism of England’s barons, it’s beyond time we hold state and federal officials accountable for promoting, teaching, and testing civic history in our schools.