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King John resigns his crown to Pope Innocent

The Flowers of History reports that King John of England resigned his crown to Pope Innocent and did homage to him.

Limits: Yonge’s 1853 English translation, vol. II, read from OCR. The sentence stands in the annal that opens “A.D. 1213.”, after the passage in which John, waiting on the coast for the arrival of the king of France, swears before the envoy Pandulph to submit to the judgment of the church; the chronicle then quotes the king’s charter. The passage gives no day or month for the act. The place is not named beyond the coast and, in the quoted charter, “the house of the military order of the temple”. The chronicler’s verdict that John made a free country “a slave” is his own.

  • Quoted from a published English translation, not from the original-language text.

Source: Flores historiarum, St Albans and Westminster traditionRead the source