king john

As the title says. Say Richard I dies on Crusade, before he gets captured by the duke of Austria and John has to raise taxes to pay the ransom. How does this affect John's reign? From what I can make out, most popular culture makes it that John is an absolute tyrant while the absent Richard is...

Basically what the tin says. What if King John had refused to sign the Magna Carta? Had the Political situation evolved where it had reached a point where it had to happen then? What if a stronger King had been in power?

This statement is repeated countless time on this forum-name John was not given among English Royal Family due to memory of John Lackland. But name 'John' was given to royal sons long after Softsword. It was common among Plantagenets and later also present among Yorks and Lancastrians. Also IIRC...

In OTL, King John of England died of dysentery in 1216. Here he doesn't (because he doesn't come into contact with it). So Louis has more time to consolidate his rule, gain real allies, try to capture Dover, get papal approval, try to catch John, try to capture Dover, impress his dad (Phillip...

There was a conflict in England called the Anarchy between de jure ruler Lady of the English Matilda and de facto ruler King Stephen. Matilda actually got many of the Germans to like her, and this includes the bishop of Mainz (in Burgundy?). She stuck around and Empress Dowager for awhile after...