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It's a rare medieval manuscript that gets equal love from Supreme Court justices, human rights advocates and the rapper Jay-Z. Granted by the king of England to a group of rebellious barons and signed on the plain at Runnymede on June 15, 1215, the Magna Carta (Great Charter) is widely viewed as one of the most important legal documents in history, enshrining the concepts of government accountability and protection of individual rights. Check out six fascinating facts about the Magna Carta's story and its significance.

We know who signed it, but we'll never be sure who wrote it.

The Magna Carta was an agreement between King John and a group of English barons in response to years of the king's misrule and excessive taxation. Despite a closing line suggesting the charter was "Given by [John's] hand," the charter was more or less forced on him by the barons. Many 19th-century historians suggested that the charter was written by one of its most influential signers, Archbishop of Canterbury Stephen Langton. However, the document's exact wording was likely the product of months of back-and-forth negotiations between the king and his noblemen.

Though considered a founding document, Magna Carta had plenty of precedents.

The roots of the Magna Carta are found in other charters granted by English kings at the beginning of their reigns. In 1100, Henry I had issued a 20-clause coronation charter, promising to rule justly, offer the church greater financial freedom and reduce royal meddling in the marriages and family inheritances of his barons. Although Henry kept few of these promises, his charter nonetheless served as a basis for the barons' negotiations in 1215. The Magna Carta was unique, however, in several respects, including its length and detail, its timing (it had been 60 years since the last royal charter) and the fact that it was less an offering by the king to his nobles than a demand by the nobles to their king.

England's greatest legal document was a failure in its initial form.

Intended as a peace treaty, this first Magna Carta never took full effect and failed to avert war between John and the nobles. By September of 1215 the barons had garrisoned Rochester Castle in opposition to the king, while John had successfully petitioned the Vatican to have the Magna Carta annulled and all the rebels excommunicated. It was only in 1225 that a new king, 9-year-old Henry III, reissued an abridged version of the Magna Carta as his own coronation charter.

Three of the Magna Carta's original clauses are still part of British law.

The Magna Carta laid a foundation for lasting legal concepts like the ban on cruel and unusual punishments, trial by a jury of one's peers and the idea that justice should not be sold or unnecessarily delayed. But the document also addressed very specific concerns that don't quite echo through the ages, including a ban on fishing weirs and a mandate on the proper width for the bolts of cloth used to make monk's robes.

When Henry III reissued Magna Carta its 69 clauses had been reduced to 27. It remained that way, with minor changes, until the 19th century, when British parliamentarians set about pruning obsolete laws from the many-layered British legal code. By the mid-20th century, only three clauses remained on the books. These remaining laws grant freedom to the Church of England, guarantee the customs and liberties of the city of London and-most importantly-forbid arbitrary arrest and the sale of justice.

There's no single "original" copy.

Multiple copies of the first Magna Carta (a sheet of parchment with approximately 3,600 words written in vegetable-based in) were distributed to individual English county courts during the summer of 1215. Today four of those copies survive; the British Library holds two, and the other two are in the collections of the cathedrals at Salisbury and Lincoln. At the beginning of World War II, Winston Churchill tried to force Lincoln Cathedral to donate its original Magna Carta to the United States, where it had been on display, in hopes that such a gift would create support for an alliance with Great Britain. Such a strong-armed donation would, of course, have run contrary to the property rights enshrined in the document itself. In the end, the cathedral's Magna Carta spent the war under guard at Fort Knox, but was returned to England after the war.

A handful of other Magna Cartas are versions issued between 1225 and 1297, when the charter officially entered the English statue books. In 2007, a 1297 Magna Carta sold at auction for $21.3 million, the most ever paid for a single page of text.

I you call it "the Magna Carta," you probably aren't from England.

According to standard British usage, King John's Great Charter has 63 clauses but no definite article-it's simply referred to as Magna Carta, without the "the." The charter was written in Latin (in which there are no exact equivalents for "an" or "the"), and signed by men who would have been fluent in Latin, French and Middle English. But for American newspapers, museum exhibitions and politicians, Magna Carta nearly always merits the article.

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It's a rare medieval manuscript that gets equal love from Supreme Court justices, human rights advocates and the rapper Jay-Z. Granted by the king of England to a group of rebellious barons and signed on the plain at Runnymede on June 15, 1215, the Magna Carta (Great Charter) is widely viewed as one of the most important legal documents in history, enshrining the concepts of government accountability and protection of individual rights. Check out six fascinating facts about the Magna Carta's story and its significance.

We know who signed it, but we'll never be sure who wrote it.

The Magna Carta was an agreement between King John and a group of English barons in response to years of the king's misrule and excessive taxation. Despite a closing line suggesting the charter was "Given by [John's] hand," the charter was more or less forced on him by the barons. Many 19th-century historians suggested that the charter was written by one of its most influential signers, Archbishop of Canterbury Stephen Langton. However, the document's exact wording was likely the product of months of back-and-forth negotiations between the king and his noblemen.

Though considered a founding document, Magna Carta had plenty of precedents.

The roots of the Magna Carta are found in other charters granted by English kings at the beginning of their reigns. In 1100, Henry I had issued a 20-clause coronation charter, promising to rule justly, offer the church greater financial freedom and reduce royal meddling in the marriages and family inheritances of his barons. Although Henry kept few of these promises, his charter nonetheless served as a basis for the barons' negotiations in 1215. The Magna Carta was unique, however, in several respects, including its length and detail, its timing (it had been 60 years since the last royal charter) and the fact that it was less an offering by the king to his nobles than a demand by the nobles to their king.

England's greatest legal document was a failure in its initial form.

Intended as a peace treaty, this first Magna Carta never took full effect and failed to avert war between John and the nobles. By September of 1215 the barons had garrisoned Rochester Castle in opposition to the king, while John had successfully petitioned the Vatican to have the Magna Carta annulled and all the rebels excommunicated. It was only in 1225 that a new king, 9-year-old Henry III, reissued an abridged version of the Magna Carta as his own coronation charter.

Three of the Magna Carta's original clauses are still part of British law.

The Magna Carta laid a foundation for lasting legal concepts like the ban on cruel and unusual punishments, trial by a jury of one's peers and the idea that justice should not be sold or unnecessarily delayed. But the document also addressed very specific concerns that don't quite echo through the ages, including a ban on fishing weirs and a mandate on the proper width for the bolts of cloth used to make monk's robes.

When Henry III reissued Magna Carta its 69 clauses had been reduced to 27. It remained that way, with minor changes, until the 19th century, when British parliamentarians set about pruning obsolete laws from the many-layered British legal code. By the mid-20th century, only three clauses remained on the books. These remaining laws grant freedom to the Church of England, guarantee the customs and liberties of the city of London and-most importantly-forbid arbitrary arrest and the sale of justice.

There's no single "original" copy.

Multiple copies of the first Magna Carta (a sheet of parchment with approximately 3,600 words written in vegetable-based in) were distributed to individual English county courts during the summer of 1215. Today four of those copies survive; the British Library holds two, and the other two are in the collections of the cathedrals at Salisbury and Lincoln. At the beginning of World War II, Winston Churchill tried to force Lincoln Cathedral to donate its original Magna Carta to the United States, where it had been on display, in hopes that such a gift would create support for an alliance with Great Britain. Such a strong-armed donation would, of course, have run contrary to the property rights enshrined in the document itself. In the end, the cathedral's Magna Carta spent the war under guard at Fort Knox, but was returned to England after the war.

A handful of other Magna Cartas are versions issued between 1225 and 1297, when the charter officially entered the English statue books. In 2007, a 1297 Magna Carta sold at auction for $21.3 million, the most ever paid for a single page of text.

I you call it "the Magna Carta," you probably aren't from England.

According to standard British usage, King John's Great Charter has 63 clauses but no definite article-it's simply referred to as Magna Carta, without the "the." The charter was written in Latin (in which there are no exact equivalents for "an" or "the"), and signed by men who would have been fluent in Latin, French and Middle English. But for American newspapers, museum exhibitions and politicians, Magna Carta nearly always merits the article.

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King John signing the Magna Carta

The Magna Carta was signed in June 1215 between the barons of Medieval England and King John. 'Magna Carta' is Latin and means "Great Charter". The Magna Carta was one of the most important documents of Medieval England.

It was signed (by royal seal) between the feudal barons and King John at Runnymede near Windsor Castle. The document was a series of written promises between the king and his subjects that he, the king, would govern England and deal with its people according to the customs of feudal law. Magna Carta was an attempt by the barons to stop a king - in this case John - abusing his power with the people of England suffering.

Why would a king - who was meant to be all powerful in his own country - agree to the demands of the barons who were meant to be below him in authority ?

England had for some years owned land in France. The barons had provided the king with both money and men to defend this territory. Traditionally, the king had always consulted the barons before raising taxes (as they had to collect it) and demanding more men for military service (as they had to provide the men). This was all part of the Feudal System.

So long as English kings were militarily successful abroad, relations with the barons were good. But John was not very successful in his military campaigns abroad. His constant demands for more money and men angered the barons. By 1204, John had lost his land in northern France. In response to this, John introduced high taxes without asking the barons. This was against feudal law and accepted custom.

John made mistakes in other areas as well. He angered the Roman Catholic Church. The pope, vexed by John's behaviour, banned all church services in England in 1207. Religion, and the fear of Hell, were very important to the people including the barons. The Catholic Church taught the people that they could only gain entrance to Heaven if the Catholic Church believed that they were good enough to get there. How could they show their goodness and love of God if the churches were shut ? Even worse for John was the fact that the pope excommunicated him in 1209. This meant that John could never get to Heaven until the pope withdrew the excommunication. Faced with this, John climbed down and accepted the power of the Catholic Church, giving them many privileges in 1214.

1214 was a disastrous year for John for another reason. Once again, he suffered military defeat in an attempt to get back his territory in northern France. He returned to London demanding more money from taxes. This time the barons were not willing to listen. They rebelled against his power. The barons captured London. However, they did not defeat John entirely and by the Spring of 1215, both sides were willing to discuss matters. The result was the Magna Carta.

What did the Magna Carta bring in?

All 63 clauses of the document can be found here.

The document can be divided into sections :

The first clauses concern the position of the Catholic Church in England.

Those that follow state that John will be less harsh on the barons.

Many of the clauses concern England's legal system.

Magna Carta promised laws that were good and fair. It states that everyone shall have access to courts and that costs and money should not be an issue if someone wanted to take a problem to the law courts.

It also states that no freeman (i.e. a person who was not a serf) will be imprisoned or punished without first going through the proper legal system. In future years the word "freeman" was replaced by "no one" to include everybody.

The last few sections deal with how the Magna Carta would be enforced in England. Twenty five barons were given the responsibility of making sure the king carried out what was stated in the Magna Carta - the document clearly states that they could use force if they felt it was necessary. To give the Magna Carta an impact, the royal seal of King John was put on it to show people that it had his royal support. This is the largest red seal at the bottom of the Magna Carta above. In detail it looked like this :

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King John was forced to sign the MagnaCarta

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Want to know all about the Magna Carta? Follow us and we'll tell you all the fun facts!

The Magna Carta is the basis of law and civil rights in every democracy in the world since 1215.

Magna Carta means The Great Charter. More elegant and less pretentious than its original name The Great Charter of the Liberties of England.

No one actually signed the Magna Carta. King John affixed his royal seal to it on June 15, 1215 at Runnymede, England.

King John was the great-grandson of William the Conqueror and the younger brother of King Richard the Lionheart!

In addition to King Richard, King John had two other brothers. They were the 'poster children' for sibling rivalry. Talk about bad blood!

Remember the original fax paper? Should have used parchment. Magna Carta did, and it is still completely legible almost 800 years later.

What is written in the Magna Carta? Hard to say as it is written in medieval Latin. Follow along and we will translate for you.

No one is above the law. Not even a king. You can thank the Magna Carta for that!

No one can be held without cause. Thank you again Magna Carta!

A widow could not be forced to marry her husband's brother. HUGE thank you Magna Carta!

More women's rights in the Magna Carta: A woman could not lose her home before receiving her inheritance. In 1215, quite a big deal!

How do you reign in a King? See the Magna Carta!

Magna Carta was really a peace treaty between King John and a group of rebellious Barons furious about over-taxation. Hmm. Tea Party anyone?

Seal this or else! Resistance was futile. King John had no choice but to agree to the Barons' demands.

King John vs. the Barons. King John had an army; the Barons had a piece of parchment. The quill really is mightier than the sword!

Wondering why King John seems familiar? Perhaps the legend of Robin Hood may jog your memory!

Robin Hood stole from the rich and gave to the poor. Too bad he was as real as Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny!

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The Magna Carta is an important medieval document that limited the right of the king to do as he wished without regard to the law.

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What is the Magna Carta?

The Magna Carta is an important medieval document that limited the right of the king to do as he wished without regard to the law. It is world-famous as a symbol of justice, fairness, and human rights.

Magna Carta means 'big charter' in Latin (a charter is a legal document which guarantees certain rights). When it was signed in 1215 it was intended to protect the barons and a limited class of free men from the worst excesses of the king by regulating feudal customs and rights and setting out rules relating to the administration of justice.

The Magna Carta is often seen as the basis of rights to equal and fair treatment under the law for all citizens.

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You won't likely get a lot of enthusiasm from kids if you want to discuss the history of human rights, but the Magna Carta is all about fairness, and that's something most kids are interested in.

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The Magna carta was signed in a meadow in Runnymede.

The Document was originally called the "Article of the Barons."

The Magna Carta is also noticed as the Magna Charter or The Great Charter

It was reissued many times during the middle-ages.

The Magna Carta originally had 69 clauses.

The 39th clause still states, "No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgement [sic] of his equals or by the law of the land."

Back then the term "Free Men" only referred to 25% of the population, where now it refers to men and women.

When King John died, his son Henry III became king and the document was confirmed in his name.

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The content of the Magna Carta was drafted by Archbishop Stephen Langton and the most powerful Barons of England. King John signed the document which was originally called the Articles of the Barons

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Of the 63 clauses of the Magna Carta only 3 are still in use. The three include a defence of the rights of the English church, the liberties and customs of London and the right to a fair trial and only being arrested for a just cause.

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The Magna carta was signed in a meadow in Runnymede.

The Document was originally called the "Article of the Barons."

The Magna Carta is also noticed as the Magna Charter or The Great Charter

It was reissued many times during the middle-ages.

The Magna Carta originally had 69 clauses.

The 39th clause still states, "No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgement [sic] of his equals or by the law of the land."

Back then the term "Free Men" only referred to 25% of the population, where now it refers to men and women.

When King John died, his son Henry III became king and the document was confirmed in his name.

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The Magna carta was signed in a meadow in Runnymede. The Document was originally called the "Article of the Barons." The Magna Carta is also noticed as the Magna Charter or The Great Charter It was reissued many times during the middle-ages. The Magna Carta originally had 69 clauses.

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The Magna Carta was an agreement between King John and a group of English barons in response to years of the king’s misrule and excessive taxation.

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It's a rare medieval manuscript that gets equal love from Supreme Court justices, human rights advocates and the rapper Jay-Z. Granted by the king of England to a group of rebellious barons and signed on the plain at Runnymede on June 15, 1215, the Magna Carta (Great Charter) is widely viewed as one of the most important legal documents in history, enshrining the concepts of government accountability and protection of individual rights. Check out six fascinating facts about the Magna Carta's story and its significance.

We know who signed it, but we'll never be sure who wrote it.

The Magna Carta was an agreement between King John and a group of English barons in response to years of the king's misrule and excessive taxation. Despite a closing line suggesting the charter was "Given by [John's] hand," the charter was more or less forced on him by the barons. Many 19th-century historians suggested that the charter was written by one of its most influential signers, Archbishop of Canterbury Stephen Langton. However, the document's exact wording was likely the product of months of back-and-forth negotiations between the king and his noblemen.

Though considered a founding document, Magna Carta had plenty of precedents.

The roots of the Magna Carta are found in other charters granted by English kings at the beginning of their reigns. In 1100, Henry I had issued a 20-clause coronation charter, promising to rule justly, offer the church greater financial freedom and reduce royal meddling in the marriages and family inheritances of his barons. Although Henry kept few of these promises, his charter nonetheless served as a basis for the barons' negotiations in 1215. The Magna Carta was unique, however, in several respects, including its length and detail, its timing (it had been 60 years since the last royal charter) and the fact that it was less an offering by the king to his nobles than a demand by the nobles to their king.

England's greatest legal document was a failure in its initial form.

Intended as a peace treaty, this first Magna Carta never took full effect and failed to avert war between John and the nobles. By September of 1215 the barons had garrisoned Rochester Castle in opposition to the king, while John had successfully petitioned the Vatican to have the Magna Carta annulled and all the rebels excommunicated. It was only in 1225 that a new king, 9-year-old Henry III, reissued an abridged version of the Magna Carta as his own coronation charter.

Three of the Magna Carta's original clauses are still part of British law.

The Magna Carta laid a foundation for lasting legal concepts like the ban on cruel and unusual punishments, trial by a jury of one's peers and the idea that justice should not be sold or unnecessarily delayed. But the document also addressed very specific concerns that don't quite echo through the ages, including a ban on fishing weirs and a mandate on the proper width for the bolts of cloth used to make monk's robes.

When Henry III reissued Magna Carta its 69 clauses had been reduced to 27. It remained that way, with minor changes, until the 19th century, when British parliamentarians set about pruning obsolete laws from the many-layered British legal code. By the mid-20th century, only three clauses remained on the books. These remaining laws grant freedom to the Church of England, guarantee the customs and liberties of the city of London and-most importantly-forbid arbitrary arrest and the sale of justice.

There's no single "original" copy.

Multiple copies of the first Magna Carta (a sheet of parchment with approximately 3,600 words written in vegetable-based in) were distributed to individual English county courts during the summer of 1215. Today four of those copies survive; the British Library holds two, and the other two are in the collections of the cathedrals at Salisbury and Lincoln. At the beginning of World War II, Winston Churchill tried to force Lincoln Cathedral to donate its original Magna Carta to the United States, where it had been on display, in hopes that such a gift would create support for an alliance with Great Britain. Such a strong-armed donation would, of course, have run contrary to the property rights enshrined in the document itself. In the end, the cathedral's Magna Carta spent the war under guard at Fort Knox, but was returned to England after the war.

A handful of other Magna Cartas are versions issued between 1225 and 1297, when the charter officially entered the English statue books. In 2007, a 1297 Magna Carta sold at auction for $21.3 million, the most ever paid for a single page of text.

I you call it "the Magna Carta," you probably aren't from England.

According to standard British usage, King John's Great Charter has 63 clauses but no definite article-it's simply referred to as Magna Carta, without the "the." The charter was written in Latin (in which there are no exact equivalents for "an" or "the"), and signed by men who would have been fluent in Latin, French and Middle English. But for American newspapers, museum exhibitions and politicians, Magna Carta nearly always merits the article.

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6 Things You May Not Know About the Magna Carta

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It's a rare medieval manuscript that gets equal love from Supreme Court justices, human rights advocates and the rapper Jay-Z. Granted by the king of England to a group of rebellious barons and signed on the plain at Runnymede on June 15, 1215, the Magna Carta (Great Charter) is widely viewed as one of the most important legal documents in history, enshrining the concepts of government accountability and protection of individual rights.

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The Magna Carta is a list of rights for the nobles that restricts the king from doing certain things without the help of the nobles

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King John and the Magna Carta - Middle Ages for Kids

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The rest of the nobles were angry. They put on their armor and gathered a huge force of nobles together at the town of Runnymede. Armed and ready, they brought the king there. The archbishop read aloud to the king from a parchment he held, a parchment called the Magna Carta, the Great Charter.

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The Magna Carta is a list of the rights of the nobles but it is signed by the King. By signing it, the King agreed to do his duty as King of England, upholding the law and running a fair government. The nobles also agreed to stand down and surrender London.

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Kids learn about King John and the Magna Carta from the Middle Ages and Medieval times. How this historical document set the stage for democracy in the west.

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Magna Carta is Latin for Great Charter. It can also be called the 'Great Charter of the Liberties of England' or 'Magna Carta Libertatum'

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Magna Carta Libertatum ( Medieval Latin for "the Great Charter of the Liberties"), commonly called Magna Carta (also Magna Charta; "Great Charter"), is a charter agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215.

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Magna Carta was the first document imposed upon a King of England by a group of his subjects

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Magna Carta Libertatum ( Medieval Latin for "the Great Charter of the Liberties"), commonly called Magna Carta (also Magna Charta; "Great Charter"), is a charter agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215.

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Although the original Magna Carta is signed with King John's signature, many believe that it was actually forged by the rebelling Barons. NOTE: This is not copied and pasted, but based on some information that is easy to locate.

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Magna Carta Libertatum ( Medieval Latin for "the Great Charter of the Liberties"), commonly called Magna Carta (also Magna Charta; "Great Charter"), is a charter agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215.

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Before the Magna Carta, widows and daughters of Barons could be sold by the King in marriage in order to make money.

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BBC Bitesize - KS2 History - British History

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KS2 History British History learning resources for adults, children, parents and teachers.