To try to keep the peace with rebellious barons and landowners, King John agreed to the Magna Carta in 1215. It was the first written document that established the rule of law and limited the king ...

And on 15 June, 1215, they met the king at Runnymede, by the Thames in Surrey, and demanded he sign a peace treaty Magna Carta. John agreed, and for the first time the principle was established ...

Within the collection is a 1297 copy of the Magna Carta. It’s not only important ... in the reign of King John, who was widely considered to be a bit of a tyrant. He endured an uprising ...

King John was one of the most rotten rulers of the lot ... just a year before his rotten death, he signed the Magna Carta in 1215 - the greatest thing to come out of his reign and a document that ...