1217 in England - Events

Events

  • 1210
    • 20 June - King John of England lands at Waterford. He later builds castles, including the first stone castle at Dublin, and appoints Justiciars over Ireland.
  • 1211
    • June - King John campaigns against Welsh prince Llywelyn the Great.
    • English occupy Ceredigion and build Aberystwyth Castle.
  • 1212
    • June - Welsh rebels burn Aberystwyth Castle.
    • 10 July - The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.
    • November - John sends a peace mission to Pope Innocent III in a dispute over who would become the next Archbishop of Canterbury.
  • 1213
    • At Rochester, Kent, King John becomes the first English monarch recorded as giving gifts of Royal Maundy money to the poor.
    • 13 May - King John's dispute with the Pope ends when John accepts Stephen Langton.
    • 30 May - Battle of Damme: English fleet under William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury destroys a French fleet off the Flemish port of Damme.
    • 3 June - King John and Llywelyn the Great sign a truce.
    • 15 November - A council of knights is held in Oxford.
  • 1214
    • 15 February - John lands an invasion force at La Rochelle.
    • 27 July - at the Battle of Bouvines, William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury is captured by the French.
    • 18 September - Treaty of Chinon signed by John and Philip II of France recognising the Capetian gains from the Angevin Empire.
    • 15 October - John returns to England.
    • December - Llywelyn the Great captures Shrewsbury.
    • Papal ordinance defines the rights of the scholars at Oxford University.
  • 1215
    • 3 May - Barons led by Robert Fitzwalter renounce their allegiance to the King and attack Northampton.
    • 17 May - Rebellious barons occupy London.
    • 19 June - Barons force King John to sign the Magna Carta at Runnymede, confirming their rights and those of the towns and Church, and confirming the status of trial by jury.
    • 24 August - Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid by papal bull triggering the First Barons' War.
    • September - First Barons' War: Rebels capture Rochester.
    • 11 October–30 November - First Barons' War: King John besieges Rochester Castle and starves the rebels into surrender.
    • December - First Barons' War: Alexander II of Scotland invades northern England.
  • 1216
    • January - First Barons' War: English army sacks Berwick-on-Tweed and raids southern Scotland.
    • February - First Barons' War: Rebellion in East Anglia quickly suppressed.
    • 21 May - First Barons' War: Louis, Count of Artois invades England in support of the barons, landing in Thanet. Entering London without opposition, he is proclaimed, but not crowned, King of England at Old St Paul's Cathedral.
    • 11 October - First Barons' War: Retreating from the French invasion, King John loses the Crown Jewels in The Wash.
    • 18 October or 19 October - John dies at Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire; he is succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry III of England, with William Marshal as regent.
    • 28 October - The infant Henry III crowned at Gloucester.
    • 12 November - Marshal and the papal legate to England, Guala Bicchieri, issue a Charter of Liberties, based on the Magna Carta, in the King's name.
  • 1217
    • 20 May - First Barons' War: The French are defeated at the Battle of Lincoln by forces led by Marshal. Lincoln is pillaged and the French survivors forced to flee south.
    • 21 August - First Barons' War: The French fleet is defeated at the Battle of Dover.
    • 23 August - First Barons' War: The French fleet is destroyed at the Battle of Sandwich.
    • 12 September - Treaty of Kingston upon Thames ends the First Barons' War: French and Scots to leave England, amnesty granted to rebels.
    • 20 September - Treaty of Lambeth signed ratifying the Kingston treaty.
    • 6 November - Charter of the Forest issued to supplement Magna Carta.
  • 1218
    • March - Treaty of Worcester recognises the Llywelyn the Great as regent of south Wales.
  • 1219
    • May - Llywelyn ravages Pembrokeshire after the death of William Marshal.

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