_Lines of Jerusalem and Sicily._ Godfrey de Bouillon, 1st King of Jerusalem; his brother Baldwin I., 2nd King. Baldwin II., cousin of Godfrey, 3rd King. | Melisenda = Fulk of Anjou. | +--------+------+ | | Baldwin III. Almeric. | +----------------+----------------+------------+ | | | Baldwin IV., Sybilla = Guy of Lusignan. Elizabeth = Conrad of the leper. Montferrat. ======================================================================= Tancred of Hauteville, descended from Rollo, Duke of Normandy. | +----+------------------------+ | | Robert Guiscard, Roger. conquered Sicily, | 1090. Roger, 1st King of Sicily, 1130–1154. | +----------------------+-------+------------+ | | | Roger, died 1148. William I., 1154. Constance = Henry VI., | | Emperor. Tancred, 1189. William II., 1166 = Joanna.
[JOHN.]
1199–1216.
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Born 1167 = 1. Hadwisa of Gloucester. = 2. Isabella de la Marche. | +-------+----+----------+-----+-------------------+ | | | | | Henry III. | Jane=Alexander Isabella=Frederick Eleanor = 1. William of | II. II. Pembroke. Richard. = 2. Simon de d. 1272. Montfort. CONTEMPORARY PRINCES. _Scotland._ | _France._ | _Germany._ | _Spain._ | | | William, 1165. | Philip Augustus, | Philip, 1198. | Alphonso IX., Alexander II., 1214. | 1180. | Otho IV., 1209. | 1158. | | | Henry I., 1214. POPE.--Innocent III., 1198. _Archbishops._ | _Chief-Justices._ | _Chancellors._ | | Hubert Walter, | Geoffrey Fitz-Peter, 1199. | Hubert Walter, 1199. 1193–1205. | Peter des Roches, 1214. | Walter Grey, 1205. Stephen Langton, | Hubert de Burgh, 1215. | Peter des Roches, 1213. 1207–1228. | | Walter Grey, 1214. | | Richard de Marisco, 1214.
John secures the crown.
King Richard had nominated John as his successor, having never renewed the recognition of Arthur of Brittany which he had made in Sicily. The new King at once set about securing his possession. He succeeded in laying hands upon the treasury at Chinon and the castles of Normandy. In Brittany, Anjou, Maine, and Touraine, there were signs of opposition. The barons put forward the claim of Arthur; Constance, his mother, took the young prince to the court of Philip, and that king proceeded in his name to master the towns and fortresses. But the assistance of his mother Eleanor, who had taken possession of her old inheritance Poitou and Aquitaine, enabled John to make successful opposition to the invasion, and on the 25th of April he was crowned at Rouen, and felt himself strong enough to establish his claims in England. Thither he had already sent the chief of his brother’s ministers—Hubert Walter, the Archbishop of Canterbury; Fitz-Peter, justiciary, and afterwards Earl of Essex; and William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke. These ministers had already obliged the nobles to tender their oath of allegiance; and John, on his arrival in May, was crowned at Westminster, taking the usual oaths to guard the Church, to do justice, and to repeal bad laws, but giving no further charter. The Archbishop is said to have begun the coronation with the declaration that the throne was elective, an assertion received with acclamation by those who were present. He is said afterwards to have declared that he took this step, knowing the King’s character; he was, however, throughout his life a devoted servant of the crown.