Magna Carta Magna Carta, which is Latin for great charter, is a document in which a king must follow certain rules of the government. It only
happened once with King John, it was the first list of the rights of the man in attempt to take the power of the king. King John was a very unpopular king, he imposed to many taxes. (1215)
Magna Carta which is Latin for Great Charter is a document in which the king agrees to follow certain rules of government. This only happened once with King John. It was the first list of the rights of the man, and an attempt to curb the power of the King. A few important dates during the medieval period -
1170;
the murder of Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, by soldiers of King Henry the II. Becket becomes a popular martyr and his grave is visited by pilgrims for hundreds of years.
The Canterbury Tales, written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the fourteenth century, recounts the stories told by a fictional group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury.
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1171; the Norman baron known as Strongbow and his followers settle in Ireland.
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1275; Llewellyn,
a Welsh prince, refuses to submit to the authority of the English monarch.
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1284; the Statue of Wales puts the whole of that country under the control of the English monarch.
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1295; the Model Parliament sets the pattern for the future by including elected representatives from urban and rural areas.
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1328; after several years of war between the Scottish and English kingdoms, Scotland is recognized as an independent kingdom.
- The hundred year war with France (1337-1377 and 1377-1453) the king of England was also king of Normandy.
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