The Magna Carta
In Our Time
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The Magna Carta and Stephen Langton
From 1204, King John was permanently resident in England. He came here really to loot it, to go back and get what he thought he had lost. We have to remember that he was a Plantagenet. As you said, France, northern France, was his real domain. And again, in 1207, he felled out spectacularly with the church over Stephen Langton.
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