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Biography

John Lackland was born in 1167 and died in 1216. He was the King of England from 1199 to 1216. He lost Normandy and almost all of his other possessions in France, in a war with the French King Philip II. John was forced to seal the Magna Carta in 1215 after a revolt of the barons in England.

Letter References

Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Miller Seward, May 22, 1859

Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Miller Seward, June 27, 1833

Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Miller Seward, July 14, 1833

Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Miller Seward, July 24, 1833

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