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King John is familiar to everyone as the villain from the stories of Robin Hood - greedy, cowardly, despicable, and cruel. But who was the person behind the tale? Was he a monster or a capable ruler cursed by misfortune? Within this new publication, best-selling historian Marc Morris pulls on modern chronicles and the king's own characters to bring the real King John vividly to life. John was dynamic, inventive, and relentless but also a amount with terrible defects. In two interwoven testimonies, we observe how he proceeded to go from being truly a youngest child with limited potential clients to the ruler of the greatest dominion in Europe, an empire that stretched from the Scottish boundary to the Pyrenees. His climb to power included treachery, rebellion, and murder. His reign observed oppression with an almost unprecedented scale: former friends hounded into exile and oblivion; Wales, Scotland, and Ireland invaded; and the greatest level of financial exploitation since the Norman Conquest. John's tyrannical guideline climaxed in conspiracy and revolt, and his leading content famously required him to issue Magna Carta, a document binding him and his successors to act better in future.
