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John, King of England

Male Abt 1166 - 1216  (~ 49 years)


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  • Name John  
    Suffix King of England 
    Birth Abt 27 Dec 1166  Oxford, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Gender Male 
    Alternate birth 1167  [3
    Death 19 Oct 1216  Newark Castle, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3, 4
    Burial Worcester Cathedral, Worcestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Person ID I1880  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of EK, Ancestor of JMF, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of LMW, Ancestor of TNH
    Last Modified 31 Jul 2022 

    Father Henry II, King of England,   b. 5 Mar 1133, Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays-de-la-Loire, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Jul 1189, Chinon, Indre-et-Loire, Centre, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 56 years) 
    Mother Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen Consort of France; Queen Consort of England,   b. 1122   d. 1 Apr 1204 (Age 82 years) 
    Marriage 18 May 1152  Bordeaux Cathedral, Bordeaux, Gironde, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 5
    Family ID F2200  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Clemence 
    Children 
    +1. Joan of England,   b. Bef 1190   d. 30 Mar 1236 (Age > 46 years)
    Family ID F135  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 12 Jul 2015 

    Family 2 (Unknown daughter of William de Warenne) 
    Children 
    +1. Richard fitz Roy   d. Bef 24 Jun 1246
    Family ID F3999  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 15 Nov 2015 

    Family 3 (Unknown mistress of King John) 
    Children 
    +1. Isabel fitz Roy
    Family ID F9470  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 16 Jun 2018 

    Family 4 Isabel of Gloucester   d. 14 Oct 1217 
    Marriage 29 Aug 1189  Marlborough, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Annulled 1199  [1
    Family ID F121  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 31 Jul 2022 

    Family 5 Isabel of Angoulême, Queen Consort of England   d. 31 May 1246 
    Marriage 24 Aug 1200  Bordeaux, Gironde, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Children 
    +1. Henry III, King of England,   b. 1 Oct 1207, Winchester Castle, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Nov 1272, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 65 years)
    +2. Richard of Cornwall, King of the Romans,   b. 5 Jan 1209, Winchester Castle, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 Apr 1272, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 63 years)
     3. Joan of England,   b. 22 Jul 1210, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Mar 1238, York, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 27 years)
    +4. Isabella of England,   b. 1214   d. 1 Dec 1241 (Age 27 years)
    +5. Eleanor of England,   b. 1215   d. 13 Apr 1275, Montargis Abbey, Loiret, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 60 years)
    Family ID F1256  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 31 Jul 2022 

  • Notes 
    • Nicknamed "Lackland".

      "With regard to the birthdate of John, there have been disagreements as to the exact date and year, because of discrepancies in the sources. This was recently discussed in detail in Lewis (2002), where the conclusion was reached that 1166 was more likely than 1167. A statement in the early thirteenth century that John received that name because he was born about the time of the feast of St. John (27 December) would, if true, indicate that date as a plausible date of birth [Ex chronico anonymi canonici, ut videtur, Laudensis, RHF 13, 678-9]. However, that source only indicates a birth on about that date ('circa festum S. Johannis natus fuit'), not on it." [Stewart Baldwin, The Henry Project]

      For at least part of his upbringing, he was raised in the remarkable household of his father Henry II's justiciar Ranulph de Glanville, along with, among others, the Walter brothers, nephews of Glanville's wife Bertha de Valognes. Theobald Walter would become, under John, chief butler of England and Ireland and the founder of enduring lordships in Munster and Leinster. Hubert Walter would become archbishop of Canterbury, Ranulph de Glanville's successor as justiciar of England, and then, in John's kingship, chancellor of England. Also raised and educated in the same household was Geoffrey fitz Peter, who would become John's justiciar.

  • Sources 
    1. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013.

    2. [S91] The Henry Project: The Ancestors of King Henry II of England, by Stewart Baldwin, Todd A. Farmerie, and Peter Stewart., year only.

    3. [S91] The Henry Project: The Ancestors of King Henry II of England, by Stewart Baldwin, Todd A. Farmerie, and Peter Stewart.

    4. [S764] Nathaniel L. Taylor, "Dynastic Chronology: Western Europe, X - XIII Centuries.", year only.

    5. [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008., date only.