Are we celebrating the wrong Magna Carta?

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In june twelve fifteen, the King John was forced by his rebellious barons to agree to a charter at Runnymede, We know that charter, and As Magna Carta, and But no one in the thirteenth century actually called it that.

Ask a medieval baron or king And they would say that Magna Carta referred to the charter issued by John's son, Henry III, Ten years later in twelve twenty five. In today's episode, Professor David Carpenter explains to David Musgrove why we ought to commemorate the eleventh of february twelve twenty five. Eight hundred years ago today.

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