59 Magna Carta and the Death of a Tyrant

The History of England

David Crowther

Royal, Queen, Europe, Modern, Parliament, History, Monarchy, Early Modern, Medieval, English, England, King, Politics

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🗓️ 5 May 2012

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Bouvines wasn't the cause of the Baronial revolt, but it probably was John's last chance to avoid it. In 1215 at Runymede Magna Carta was signed. It's extremely unlikely that John ever intended to allow the treaty to survive - and his untimely death at Newark was the biggest single factor in Magna Carta's survival.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the History of England, episode 59, Magna Carta and the Death of a Tyrant.
0:26.6	Two weeks I'm suggesting an audiobook to listen to courtesy of Audible.
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1:04.4	This week's audible title is Voices of the Powerless, The Complete Series.
1:08.8	It's by Melvin Bragg again, sorry about that, and it's a collection of the BBC Radio
1:14.0	4 series that explores the lies of the ordinary men and women have written at critical moments
1:18.7	across the last thousand years.
1:21.0	It runs from the harrowing of the North and the William & Conqueror right through to the
1:24.6	Civil War.
1:27.1	So today everyone, my longest podcast to date, sorry about that, it's a bit long.
1:32.2	But today we're going to finish off John and the Angevin's and we're going to talk about
1:35.3	Magna Carta 1214, probably the second most recognisable date in English history.
1:41.2	Did I just say 1214, 1215 obviously, 1214 on the other hand, is a completely forgettable
1:47.1	date.
1:48.1	Anyway, when John came back to England in October 1214, he came back to a country that was
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