Question: When did Richard die?
Answer: 6 April 1199

Question: Who was the sole surviving son?
Answer: John

Question: Where was John crowned?
Answer: Westminster

Question: Whose army pressed up the Loire valley?
Answer: Arthur

Question: When did Philip summon John to attend court?
Answer: 1202

Question: What was John summoned as?
Answer: Count of Poitou

Question: What principle did John's predecessors use?
Answer: vis et voluntas

Question: What quality did Henry II and Richard possess?
Answer: divine majesty

Question: What century were there contrary opinions expressed about the nature of kingship?
Answer: 12th century

Question: What did John suffer from?
Answer: royal schizophrenia

Question: What happened at the start of John's reign?
Answer: sudden change in prices

Question: How long did the inflationary pressure continue?
Answer: 13th century

Question: When did John address problems with the English currency?
Answer: 1204 and 1205

Question: How did he address the problems with the English currency?
Answer: carrying out a radical overhaul of the coinage

Question: Who was Henry's favorite child?
Answer: John

Question: When was John appointed the Lord of Ireland?
Answer: 1177

Question: When did Richard I become king?
Answer: 1189

Question: Who unsuccessfully attempted a rebellion against Richard's royal administrators?
Answer: John

Question: Who was John's second wife?
Answer: Isabella of Angoulême

Question:  Nicholas Vincent was described as what?
Answer: downright mean

Question: When did John have conjugal relationships with Isabella?
Answer: 1207 and 1215

Question: How many children did John and Isabella have?
Answer: five children

Question: When did war with France break out?
Answer: 1202

Question: When was John excommunicated?
Answer: 1209

Question: When was the Magna Carta peace treaty agreed upon?
Answer: 1215

Question: Who won victory over Louis and the rebel barons?
Answer: Henry III

Question: What prevented the departure of the planned 1205 expedition?
Answer: Baronial unrest in England

Question: When did Poitou depart?
Answer: 1206

Question: Why did John divert south?
Answer: to counter a threat to Gascony from Alfonso VIII of Castile

Question: Why did Philip move south?
Answer: to meet John

Question: When was Henry crowned King of England?
Answer: 1170

Question: What was Henry promised as part of his future inheritance?
Answer: Normandy and Anjou

Question: Who became the Duke of Brittany?
Answer: Geoffrey

Question: What was John's nickname?
Answer: Lackland

Question: How tall was John?
Answer: 5 ft 5 in

Question: What did John build up?
Answer: travelling library of books

Question: Who became a connoisseur of jewels?
Answer: John

Question: What did John do in fits of rage?
Answer: biting and gnawing his fingers

Question: When did Hubert Walter die?
Answer: 13 July 1205

Question: What lead to the king's excommunication?
Answer: a dispute with Pope Innocent III

Question: Who said Pope Innocent was an ambitious and aggressive religious leader?
Answer: historian Ralph Turner

Question: When did John make his first visit to Ireland?
Answer: 1185

Question: How many knights accompanied John to Ireland?
Answer: 300

Question: How did John offend the local Irish rulers?
Answer: making fun of their unfashionable long beards

Question: Who did Henry fight a short war with in 1183?
Answer: Richard

Question: How did Henry the Young King die?
Answer: dysentery

Question: Who became the Duke of Aquitaine in place of Richard?
Answer: John

Question: When did the war end?
Answer: 1184

Question: When were the papal terms for submission accepted?
Answer: May 1213

Question: How many marks did John surrender?
Answer: 1,000

Question: Where was the agreement formalised?
Answer: Bulla Aurea

Question: Who did John explore an alliance with?
Answer: French king Philip II

Question: What did John do when Richard did not return from his crusade?
Answer: assert that his brother was dead

Question: Who captured Richard?
Answer: Duke of Austria

Question: When did the king return to England?
Answer: 1194

Question: Who refused to work with Puiset?
Answer: Longchamp

Question: When was Longchamp isolated in the Tower of London?
Answer: October 1191

Question: Where did Walter of Coutances return to?
Answer: England

Question: Where did the rebel barons congregate?
Answer: Northampton

Question: Who was the rebel baron leader?
Answer: Robert fitz Walter

Question: What did John instruct Langton to do?
Answer: organise peace talks with the rebel barons

Question: How long did the new peace last?
Answer: two years

Question: When was John's decision to marry Isabella?
Answer: August 1200

Question: John acquired key land between Poitou and where?
Answer: Gascony

Question: John moved south into where?
Answer: France

Question: Who renewed the anti-French alliances?
Answer: Baldwin IX of Flanders and Renaud of Boulogne

Question: When was the Treaty of Le Goulet negotiated?
Answer: May 1200

Question: What nickname did John's policy earn him?
Answer: John Softsword

Question: The rebel barons invited who to lead them?
Answer: French prince Louis

Question: Who was Henry II's granddaughter?
Answer: Blanche of Castile

Question: What did John do once he contained Alexander in Scotland?
Answer: he marched south to deal with the challenge of the coming invasion

Question: Who did John attempt to convince?
Answer: Pope Innocent III

Question: Where was Arthur imprisoned?
Answer: Falaise

Question: Who was kept imprisoned by John for many years?
Answer: Eleanor

Question: What victory strengthened John's position?
Answer: Mirebeau

Question: Who deserted John in favor of Philip?
Answer: William de Roches

Question: How was John's financial situation?
Answer: tenuous

Question: Who was declared the protector of Henry III after John's death?
Answer: William Marshal

Question: Who gave up their claim to the English throne?
Answer: Louis

Question: What agreement failed?
Answer: Magna Carta

Question: Until when did Henry III continue his attempts to reclaim Normandy?
Answer: 1259

Question: What was one of John's principal challenges?
Answer: acquiring the large sums of money needed

Question: When did Richard sell many royal properties?
Answer: 1189

Question: Where did John derive income from?
Answer: fines, court fees and the sale of charters and other privileges

Question: What was of particular importance to John?
Answer: administration of justice

Question: When was the system of coroners first introduced?
Answer: 1194

Question: Why was John motivated?
Answer: potential of the royal legal process to raise fees

Question: When did new interpretations of John's reign begin to emerge?
Answer: 1940s

Question: Who wrote an essay in 1945 that proposed a "new approach?"
Answer: Vivian Galbraith

Question: Who suggested that Ireland was less stable by 1216 than previously supposed?
Answer: Lewis Warren

Question: John was deeply suspicious of who?
Answer: the barons

Question: What famous knight was subjected to John's malevolentia?
Answer: William Marshal

Question: How many marks did De Braose refuse to pay?
Answer: 40,000

Question: When did De Braose die?
Answer: 1211

Question: Who did Henry II express his fury and ill-will towards?
Answer: Thomas Becket

Question: What was exacerbated by the tradition of Angevin royal ira et malevolentia?
Answer: the king to rely on his own men at the expense of the barons

Question: John had to additional ability to do what?
Answer: cripple his vassals

Question: John spent much of 1205 doing what?
Answer: securing England

Question: When did John recreate a version of Henry II's Assize of Arms?
Answer: 1181

Question: How many knights out of ten would be mobilised?
Answer: one

Question: John focused on trying to retake what?
Answer: Normandy

Question: John did not regard the loss of Duchy as a permanent shift in what?
Answer: Capetian power