Tag: Richard the Lionheart

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27th May 1199: King John of England crowned at Westminster Abbey in London

27th May 2023
Tagged as: England, France, King John, Magna Carta, Monarchy, Plantagenet, Richard I, Richard the Lionheart

John ruled for seventeen years before contracting dysentery while in Kings Lynn, an illness from which he later died.

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16th March 1190: The Jewish population of York massacred in a pogrom

16th March 2022
Tagged as: Anti-Semitism, Crusade, England, Judaism, Massacre, Money, Richard I, Richard the Lionheart, York

Anti-Semitic attacks spread across England and reached York in March 1190.