In questo giorno del 1216 – Re Giovanni d’Inghilterra muore di dissenteria all’età di 49 anni
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In questo giorno del 1216 – Re Giovanni d’Inghilterra muore di dissenteria all’età di 49 anni
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He contracted the disease while campaigning in eastern England during the First Barons’ War, a civil war that had erupted after he repudiated the Magna Carta.
His death came shortly after he famously lost his baggage train, including the Crown Jewels, in the quicksands of The Wash. Those have yet to be recovered.
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William, William, Henry, Stephen, Henry, Richard, John. Oi!
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Not from “a surfeit of lampreys”, then.
You’re about a week early given the calendar changes
Probably one of the English monarchs that has had his arse handed to him most conclusively by the French. Granted Phillipe II Auguste was a rather formidable man, something one could perhaps not say about King John.