John, King of England

Abt 1166 - 1216  (~ 49 years)

• Name	John
  Suffix	King of England
  Born	Abt 27 Dec 1166	Oxford, Oxfordshire, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	19 Oct 1216	Newark Castle, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England   [1, 2]
  Buried	Worcester Cathedral, Worcestershire, England   [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 LDN, Ancestor of LMH, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK, Ancestor of UKL, Ancestor of WPF
  Last Modified	16 Jun 2018

  
  

  Father	Henry II, King of England,   b. 4 Mar 1133, Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays-de-la-Loire, France ,   d. 6 Jul 1189, Chinon, Indre-et-Loire, Centre, France  (Age 56 years)
  Mother	Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen Consort of France; Queen Consort of England,   b. 1122,   d. 1204  (Age 82 years)
  Married	18 May 1152	Bordeaux Cathedral, Bordeaux, Gironde, France   [1, 4]
  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)
  Last Modified	12 Jul 2015
  Family ID	F135	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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

  
  

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

  
  

  Family 4	Isabel,   d. 14 Oct 1217
  Married	29 Aug 1189	Marlborough, Wiltshire, England   [1]
  Annulled	1199  [1]
  Last Modified	1 Sep 2021
  Family ID	F121	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 5	Isabel of Angoulême, Queen Consort of England,   d. 31 May 1246
  Married	24 Aug 1200	Bordeaux, Gironde, France   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Henry III, King of England,   b. 1 Oct 1207, Winchester Castle, Hampshire, England ,   d. 16 Nov 1272, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England  (Age 65 years) + 2. Richard of Cornwall, King of the Romans,   b. 5 Jan 1209, Winchester Castle, Hampshire, England ,   d. 2 Apr 1272, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England  (Age 63 years)   3. Joan of England,   b. 22 Jul 1210, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England ,   d. 4 Mar 1238, York, Yorkshire, England  (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  (Age 60 years)
  Last Modified	14 Jun 2020
  Family ID	F1256	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• 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

  [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S764] Nathaniel L. Taylor, "Dynastic Chronology: Western Europe, X - XIII Centuries.", year only. [S91] The Henry Project: The Ancestors of King Henry II of England, by Stewart Baldwin, Todd A. Farmerie, and Peter Stewart. [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.