CHAPTER VII

JOHN LACKLAND, 1215–1216 247

NOTE I

JOHN AND THE DE BRAOSES 287

NOTE II

EUSTACE DE VESCI AND ROBERT FITZ-WALTER 289

INDEX 295

LIST OF MAPS

I. IRELAND ACCORDING TO THE TREATY OF 1175 _To face page_ 12

II. IRELAND ACCORDING TO HENRY’S DISTRIBUTION, 1177 ” 14

III. IRELAND, A.D. 1185 ” 17

IV. ENGLAND, A.D. 1190 ” 27

V. IRELAND, A.D. 1210 ” 151

“The closer study of John’s history clears away the charges of sloth and incapacity with which men tried to explain the greatness of his fall. The awful lesson of his life rests on the fact that the king who lost Normandy, became the vassal of the Pope, and perished in a struggle of despair against English freedom was no weak and indolent voluptuary but the ablest and most ruthless of the Angevins.”

JOHN RICHARD GREEN.