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John Lackland

Chapter 2: LIST OF MAPS
By Kate Norgate
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A detailed chronological biography examines the life and reign of a medieval monarch, beginning with his birth and dynastic position and tracing his accumulation and loss of territorial titles, marriage alliances, and administrative initiatives. It follows mounting tensions with the papacy and with native magnates that culminate in open conflict, territorial decline, and political crisis. Using contemporary chronicles, legal records, maps, and notes, the work balances narrative events with analysis of character, policy, and the institutional pressures that shaped this contested reign.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
  PAGE
John Lackland, 1167–1189 1
CHAPTER II
John Count of Mortain, 1189–1199 24
CHAPTER III
John “Softsword,” 1199–1206 64
CHAPTER IV
King John, 1206–1210 118
CHAPTER V
John and the Pope, 1210–1214 157
CHAPTER VI
John and the Barons, 1214–1215 210
CHAPTER VII
John Lackland, 1215–1216 247
NOTE I
John and the De Braoses 287
NOTE II
Eustace de Vesci and Robert Fitz-Walter 289
INDEX 295

LIST OF MAPS

I. Ireland according to the Treaty of 1175 To face page 12
II. Ireland according to Henry’s distribution, 1177 ” 14
III. Ireland, A.D. 1185 ” 17
IV. England, A.D. 1190 ” 27
V. Ireland, A.D. 1210 ” 151

“The closer study of John’s history clears away the charges of sloth and incapacity with which men tried to explain the greatness of his fall. The awful lesson of his life rests on the fact that the king who lost Normandy, became the vassal of the Pope, and perished in a struggle of despair against English freedom was no weak and indolent voluptuary but the ablest and most ruthless of the Angevins.”

John Richard Green.