The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215

The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215
Author: Frederick Lewis Weis
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1999
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780806316093

At the signing of the Magna Charta, twenty-five men, representing the barons, signed as sureties of the baronial performance, in effect pledging the barons to fulfill their obligations to the Crown in accordance with the terms of the Great Charter. Of these twenty-five sureties only seventeen have identified descendants. Each of the seventeen is represented in the celebrated "Magna Charta Sureties," which traces their connections--line by line and generation by generation--to approximately 160 American colonists. Eight years have passed since the publication of the last edition of this work, however, and in the interval a great many additions, corrections, and revisions have accumulated. Brought to a very high standard by the unremitting efforts of its editor, Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr., this fifth edition incorporates new lines, corrects errors in existing lines, adds recently discovered material, and supplies references where they had previously been omitted. The result is a reliable and authoritative collection of interlocking pedigrees which carry the ancestry of some 160 American colonists back to the thirteenth century. With the possible exception of Weis's "Ancestral Roots" (also published by Genealogical Publishing Co.), this is probably the very best work ever written on the pre-colonial ancestry of American colonists.

The Magna Carta

The Magna Carta
Author: Stephen Langton
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
Total Pages: 16
Release: 2021-02-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1513284657

Magna Carta (1215) is a peace treaty drafted by Archbishop of Canterbury Stephen Langton in coordination with the English barons. Intended as an appeal to King John of England on behalf of the barons, Magna Carta was agreed to on June 15, 1215. Although it was not initially respected, leading to the First Barons’ War, Magna Carta was later revised and reissued as part of the Treaty of Lambeth in 1217, establishing peace between King Henry III and the rebel barons. Dissatisfied with the rule of King John, rebel barons gathered in Northampton in May of 1215 to renounce their feudal ties to the crown. Unwilling to accept arbitration with the Pope on behalf of the King, the barons forced John to meet with them at Runnymede on June 10, 1215. Over the next ten days, and under the direction of Stephen Langton, they turned their demands into a charter now known as Magna Carta. Agreed to by King John on June 15, the Magna Carta proposed major political reforms, including the protection of the rights of the church, protection from unjust imprisonment, and limits on feudal payments and other forms of taxation due to the King. Although Magna Carta focuses on the rights of barons, it also articulates the rights of serfs and other free men. Recognized as a foundational document on the concept of liberty, Magna Carta is widely respected in Britain and the United States, and served as a major influence on the creation of the United States Constitution. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Magna Carta is a classic of English political history reimagined for modern readers.

Magna carta

Magna carta
Author: King John
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2013-06-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1291433074

The constitutional foundation of English (and perhaps world) freedoms

Magna Carta Sureties 1215

Magna Carta Sureties 1215
Author: Frederick Lewis Weiss
Publisher:
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2008-04-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781422365496

The Magna Charta (or Carta) is the cornerstone of Anglo-Saxon law, since it is the earliest agree. between sovereign & subject on the rights of both parties -- what each can do, & the limitation of powers. And, the Great Charter set up watchdogs for both sides: 25 men representing the barons, & the friends of the king, who were named in the Charter. The most useful book about the Charter is a 19th-cent. work by Richard Thomson, An Historical Essay on the Magna Carta of King John, pub. in London in 1828. It includes extensive bio. notes on the Sureties, & on those individuals mentioned in the Charter, or connected with it. There are two tables that supply lineage info., one on the Sureties, the other on those persons who appear as friends of the king.

Magna Carta

Magna Carta
Author: William Sharp McKechnie
Publisher:
Total Pages: 570
Release: 1914
Genre: History
ISBN:

Magna Charta Barons and Their Descendants

Magna Charta Barons and Their Descendants
Author: Charles Henry Browning
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2012-06-14
Genre: Family History
ISBN: 0806300566

A successor to the 1898 work "The Magna Charta Barons and Their American Descendants," the pedigrees herein are of the members of the Order of Runnemede in 1915--in effect, a second "yearbook" of the Order. Since pedigrees were dropped and added as the membership of the Order changed, this work stands by itself and does not supersede the 1898 volume. Nearly 200 pages are devoted to pedigrees of the members, which are grouped under the following names: Abbott, Allyn, Aston, Bernard, Bevan, Booth, Brooke, Bruen, Bulkeley, Byrd, Cadwalader, Calvert, Carter, Chauncey, Chichester, Claiborne, Claypool, Clayton, Daubeney, Digges, Drake, Dundas, Evans, Fauntleroy, Fenwick, Fleete, Foulke, Gordon, Gorsuch, Haynes, Henry, Humfrey, Irvine, Lambert, Lawrence, Leete, Lindsay, Lloyd, Lyman, Lynde, MacGehee, McIntosh, Montgomery, Norton, O'Carroll, Owen, Reade, Rose, Saltonstall, Scott, Sherman, Skipwith, Spotswood, Stewart, Sullivan, Throckmorton, Warren, Washington, West, Wetherill, Whiting, Wilkinson, Williams, Willis, Willoughby, Winthrop, Witherspoon, Woodhull, and Wyatt.

Magna Carta and the England of King John

Magna Carta and the England of King John
Author: Janet Senderowitz Loengard
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 1843835487

Magna Carta marked a watershed in the relations between monarch and subject and as such has long been central to English constitutional and political history. This volume uses it as a springboard to focus on social, economic, legal, and religious institutions and attitudes in the early thirteenth century. What was England like between 1199 and 1215? And, no less important, how was King John perceived by those who actually knew him? The essays here analyse earlier Angevin rulers and the effect of their reigns on John's England, the causes and results of the increasing baronial fear of the king, the "managerial revolution" of the English church, and the effect of the ius commune on English common law. They also examine the burgeoning economy of the early thirteenth century and its effect on English towns, the background to discontent over the royal forests which eventually led to the Charter of the Forest, the effect of Magna Carta on widows and property, and the course of criminal justice before 1215. The volume concludes with the first critical edition of an open letter from King John explaining his position in the matter of William de Briouze. Contributors: Janet S. Loengard, Ralph V. Turner, John Gillingham, David Crouch, David Crook, James A. Brundage, John Hudson, Barbara Hanawalt, James Masschaele