It's Magna Carta Day

So let's develop a King John themed POD.

Something happens to King John just before or as he succeeds his older brother as King of England in 1189 and the heir designate, Arthur of Anjou becomes King.

Although Arthur was murdered at the behest of John when he was 16, let's just say that he is the opposite of John, a wiser monarch who isn't worried by baronial problems leading to civil war, has full control of English, Irish and French territories and had a good relationship with the French King.

Where do England and France go on from here?
 
If England can retain control of the Angevin Empire then they could also continue the policy of marriage and acquisition to expand this empire, to the severe detriment of the Kingdom of France which becomes increasingly smaller in size in comparison

Off the top of my head, that is...

Best Regards
Grey Wolf
 
By looking at today's article on Wikipedia about the signing of the Magna Carta, we see that England arguably had the most powerful monarch in Europe because of the various abilities he had from Anglo-Saxon and Norman monarchial traditions. If there is no annoying of the Barons and no mismanagement of the kingdom and lack of a row with the clergy, could England legitimately dominate France in the next century?

Without Magna Carta, would the English monarchy remain largely autocratic or would something similar be drawn up once the Black Death hit in the mid 14th Century?

And would the legend of Robin Hood have started?

There's a great quote from Winston Churchill on the reign of John: "When the long tally is added, it will be seen that the British nation and the English-speaking world owe far more to the vices of John than to the labours of virtuous sovereigns".
 
There's a great quote from Winston Churchill on the reign of John: "When the long tally is added, it will be seen that the British nation and the English-speaking world owe far more to the vices of John than to the labours of virtuous sovereigns".

Without John, we might have had other unpleasant sovereigns to bring about the Magna Carta.

And the Barons might get uppity and revolt even with a good sovereign.

I just wanted to cite a Reader's Digest anecdote. An American couple, tourists, were visiting England and the tour guide was showing them the site where the Magna Carta was signed.

"When was it signed?"
"Twelve-fifteen."
The American tourist looks at his watch and says to his wife,
"My God Edna, we missed it by twenty minutes!"

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How could we get the Magna Carta signed in modern times, and what kind of publicity would it get? How would we have modern technology in a world where the Magna Carta was only signed in modern times?
 
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