NOUN
- youngest son of Henry II; King of England from 1199 to 1216; succeeded to the throne on the death of his brother Richard I; lost his French possessions; in 1215 John was compelled by the barons to sign the Magna Carta (1167-1216)
How To Use King John In A Sentence
- After the loss of Normandy, King John paid the ransom for Gerard and awarded him several sheriffships.
- King John made up by surrendering his kingdom as a feudal fief to the pope.
- By a charter granted in 1200 King John permitted the citizens of Lincoln to elect two of their number "well and faithfully to maintain the provostship (_præposituram_) of the city. The Customs of Old England
- Louis was required to renounce all claim to the English throne and to restore the charters of liberties granted by King John.
- The King John Library is a baroque delight, with acres of gold leaf, faux marble, rosewood and ebony tables and of course stacks and stacks of books.
- As has been related, Cibber's alteration of "King John," which had been "burked" in 1736-7, was produced, from patriotic motives, in 1745. An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume II
- King John forbade the clergy to enact any new decree on the subject.
- It is a well-known story of King John, that he confined a wealthy Jew in one of the royal castles, and daily caused one of his teeth to be torn out, until, when the jaw of the unhappy Israelite was half disfurnished, he consented to pay a large sum, which it was the tyrant's object to extort from him. Ivanhoe
- The military orders, and the knights under King John put up a valiant defense and saved what they could of the army.
- In the early 13th cent. there was a French court, comprising six ecclesiastics and six laymen, known as ‘the Twelve Peers of France’; this court in 1202 declared King John deprived of his fiefs in France.
