magna carta

Magna Carta

 Magna Carta was agreed by king john of England near Windsor on the 15^th of June 1215. It was first drafted by the archbishop of Canterbury to make peace between king john and the group of rebel barons. The chapters promised the protection of the church rights also the protection of the barons themselves from illegal imprisonment. The charter was annulled by the pope innocent II, leading to the first baron’s war. After johns death the regency government of his young son, henry the 3^rd reissued the document in 1216, stripped of some of its more radical content. At the end of the war 1217 it formed part of the peace treaty agreed at Lambeth, where the document acquired the name magna carta, to distinguish it from the smaller charter of the forest which was issued the same time. Short of funds henry reissued the charter again in 1225 in exchange for a grant of new taxes.  Edward I, repeated the exercise in 1297, this time confirming it as a part of England statue law.