Uploaded May 2023 | Updated September 2026, 14 hours ago

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"A very bad man, more cruel than all others. He lusted after beautiful women, And because of this he shamed the high men of the Land".

In the third episode of the series, we will explore the story of King John.
Part three is about the last years of Henry 2nds reign.

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Reference 1 Kate Norgate, England under the Angevin kings, page 230 paragraph 2.

Reference 2 The Battle of Bouvines according to William the Breton (prose account) paragraph 29

Reference 3 Page 17 of Stephen churches, King John, page 28 of Marc Morris, King John and page 233 of Kate Norgate, England under the Angevin kings.

Reference 4 page 240 Kate Norgate

Reference 5 page 34 of Marc Morris and page 243 Kate Norgate.

Reference 6 page 89, paragraph 2 of the annals of Roger of Howden.

Reference 7 pages 106-107 of Annals of Roger of Howden 7

Reference 8 page 261 Kate Norgate

Reference 9 page 261 Kate Norgate

Reference 10 page 111 Roger of Howden

Sources.

1215 The year of Magna Carta, Danny Danziger and John Gillingham.

John, Professor Nicholas Vincent.

England in the thirteenth century, Harding, Cambridge.

Magna Carta, Dan Jones.

The Oxford illustrated history of Ireland, Edited by F. Foster.

King John, Marc Morris.

The Plantagenets, John Harvey.

King John, Stephen Chruch.

The illustrated chronicles of Matthew Paris.

The course of the exchequer, http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/cdonahue/courses/lhsemelh/materials/Exchequer.pdf

England under the Angevin kings, Kate Norgate
archive.org/details/englandunderange02norguoft/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater

topography of Ireland
yorku.ca/inpar/topography_ireland.pdf

The Annals of Roger de Hoveden-
archive.org/details/annalsofrogerdeh02hoveuoft/mode/2up