How To Use King john In A Sentence
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After the loss of Normandy, King John paid the ransom for Gerard and awarded him several sheriffships.
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King John made up by surrendering his kingdom as a feudal fief to the pope.
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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
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Louis was required to renounce all claim to the English throne and to restore the charters of liberties granted by King John.
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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.
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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
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King John forbade the clergy to enact any new decree on the subject.
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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
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The military orders, and the knights under King John put up a valiant defense and saved what they could of the army.
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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.
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The ravelled is a kind of cheat bread also, but it retaineth more of the gross, and less of the pure substance of the wheat; and this, being more slightly wrought up, is used in the halls of the nobility and gentry only, whereas the other either is or should be baked in cities and good towns of an appointed size (according to such price as the corn doth bear), and by a statute provided by King John in that behalf.
Of the Food and Diet of the English. Chapter VI. [1577, Book III., Chapter 1; 1587, Book II., Chapter 6
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In 1208, the year the pope launched a brutal crusade upon the heretics of Albi in the south of France, he placed King John under interdict, and in the following year excommunicated him and his kingdom.
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In King John's time, as he observes, the whole county was a forest, and he disforested it.
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This institution was begun with the historical library which King John VI brought from Portugal and presented to Brazil, and it was greatly augmented by the collection of the great Portuguese wrier Barbosa
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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By 1216 the castle was sufficiently strong to withstand a siege by forces opposed to King John.
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Body of Lies) als Sir Godfrey (handlanger van King John)
FilmTotaal - Filmnieuws
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Along the backstretch they raced with 15 lengths separating Danz Star, who had pulled his way into the lead, and King Johny still last.
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His younger brother (who became King John) had a seal in 1177 with two lions passant guardant.
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It is a huge story, full of facts, and Fraser spurns equivocation and doubt as she explains why Alfred was great and Ethelred was unready, why King John was not a good man and Nelson and Wellington were brilliant.
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In 1214 King John's army with many Gascons amongst it, was defeated at Bouvines near Lille in the North.
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There is an evident resemblance between those barons who humiliated King John and the Whig magnates who invited William of Orange to usurp the throne.
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He caught the attention of Archbishop Hubert Walter by 1195, and through him became confessor and alms-giver to King John from 1204 to 1207.
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Some Americans may, after listening to his incessant talking over the coming weeks, agree with the Bard: "Zounds, I was never so bethumped with words" (King John).
Ken Adelman: Will Power
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The coheiresses, in the reign of King John, married Vernon and Bassett.
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Nearby were ruins of the Druids of old, forts built by King John, ruins of monasteries -- all of which undoubtedly played some part in moulding the boy's mind.
Thomas D'Arcy McGee
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And this, moreover, is largely supported by the Cornish name of the mount, and we know from our own ancient history that Cornwall was largely disforested in the reign of King John.
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A French nun who was cured overnight of Parkinson's disease after invoking John Paul's intercession presented the Pope with an ampoule of his blood as a holy relic.
Bishop Pierre Whalon: Big Media Events And The Churches That Put Them On
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Ten thousand marks were sought from King John as a subsidy for the Holy Land.
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By 1216 the castle was sufficiently strong to withstand a siege by forces opposed to King John.
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His defence that King John had disafforested Brewood saved his life and he escaped with only a fine.
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Henry disafforested land that King John and Henry II had afforested. The Charter of the Forest in 1217 relaxed Forest Laws - there was no more death and mutilation for Forest offences.
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King John's charter of 1201 empowered the lord warden of the stannaries to try all cases except land, life, or limb.
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By 1216 the castle was sufficiently strong to withstand a siege by forces opposed to King John.
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Chris hesitates for a beat before rushing up and knocking Johnnie down in a quick flurry of shots.
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King John was keen to fight; the States General gave him the means for carrying on war, by establishing the odious "gabelle" on salt, and other imposts.
Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
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His archiepiscopate was filled with quarrels with his cathedral clergy and, from 1207, with King John.
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The point is the baronage was not united against King John, and of the knightage only a small percentage was in revolt.
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Yes, and bringing them to shore he led them, unerring, to the wooden cross above the beach; and there, over the grave of these lovers, Zarco took seizin of the island in the name of King John of Portugal, Prince Henry, and the
Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756
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In July 1203, at the height of the crisis in Normandy, King John instructed his chief forester, Hugh de Neville, to sell forest privileges ‘to make our profit by selling woods and demising assarts.’
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The elder son of King John, Henry was nine when his father died.
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The central tower of the cathedral, that fine example of decorated work, covered with its profusion of ball-flower ornament, was built by, or at any rate during the episcopate of, Giles de Braose (1200-1215), an ardent opponent of King John.
Bell’s Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Hereford, A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See
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Which car company's motto is a vexillological pun on their logo, and what is the logo's connection to the 13 th century King John?
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The first known record of Royal Maundy took place here, when King John fed and clothed 13 paupers in 1210.
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The military orders, and the knights under King John put up a valiant defense and saved what they could of the army.
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It's called CRC, known for those swift boat veterans for truths ads attacking John Kerry in the 2004 presidential campaign, Wolf.
CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2009
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One of the most important documents in our constitutional history is the Magna Carta, a charter of rights extracted by the nobility from King John in 1215.
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Fooled into thinking John was suffering from an incurable brain tumour, the friend, known as Mark, agreed to the killing as a mercy mission.
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For on landing the Portuguese, guided by Morales, soon found the wooden cross and grave of the Englishman and his mistress, and it was there that Zarco, with no human being to dispute his title, "took seizin" of the island in the name of King John, Prince Henry, and the
Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work.
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Robin is back from the Crusades and in trouble with King John, who declares him an outlaw “to be hunted all the days of his life”: cue a feast of deadeye archery and slashing swordfights.
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Great William had made his effort to feudalize England) King John signed the Magna Carta, Feudalism proper gave way to landlordism -- the basis of
The American Empire
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In the 12th century King John afforested the whole of the county of Devon and such was the population's resentment that after a petition it was agreed, in return for a huge sum of money, to disafforest the county "up to the boundary of Dartmoor and Exmoor."
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It is the 800th anniversary of King John granting the charters that effectively created Marlborough and the townsfolk intend to party in style.
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The practice of Maundy gifts dates back to 1210 when King John distributed food and clothing to the poor in the Yorkshire town of Knaresborough (my home town).
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They are backing John Hagelin, a nuclear physicist and leader of the Natural Law Party.
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He was the great-grandson of John of Gaunt, the third son of Edward III, himself the great-great-grandson of King John, who was descendent from William I on the distaff side via his grandmother Matilda.
