Worcester Cathedral is the burial place for the infamous 'bad' King John. John is most famous for sealing Magna Carta which some historians regard as the first step towards England’s constitutional monarchy.

The royal tomb of King John of England – 24 December 1166 – 19 October 1216 King John was the youngest son of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine and was born on 24 December 1166 making him the 7th king to rule Britain since the Norman invasion and conquest of 1066.

King John's tomb in Worcester Cathedral. In September 1216, John began a fresh, vigorous attack. He marched from the Cotswolds, feigned an offensive to relieve the besieged Windsor Castle, and attacked eastwards around London to Cambridge to separate the rebel-held areas of Lincolnshire and East Anglia. [218]

2023年2月15日 · Have you visited the tomb of King John at Worcester Cathedral? There are a few little-known facts I learned while visiting the king at the cathedral earlier last year. Did you know all of these? 1. It was once studded with jewels.

2012年2月14日 · Worcester Cathedral has two royal tombs. One belongs to Prince Arthur (Henry VIII’s older brother and first husband of Katherine of Aragon), and the other to King John. John’s rise and fall occupies a prominent place in English medieval history.

It contains several funerary monuments, including those of King John; Arthur, Prince of Wales; and the prime minister Stanley Baldwin. The cathedral was founded in 680, with a Northumbrian priest, Tatwine, appointed as its first bishop.

2015年4月25日 · King John's will has been very generously loaned by Worcester Cathedral to the British Library's major exhibition, Magna Carta: Law, Liberty, Legacy. John was buried at Worcester in accordance with the terms of his will.

2024年1月20日 · The Tomb of King John who died in 1216 is in Worcester Cathedral has been opened twice in 1529 and 1797. In this post I explore what was found within.

King John had a long association with Worcester Cathedral. When he knew he was near death at Newark Castle, he wrote in his will that he wished to be buried at Worcester. His body was duly taken to the Cathedral and buried in the Quire between the …

2016年10月19日 · He received a place in history for being the King of England from 1199 to 1216. John was the son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, and youngest brother of Richard the Lionheart. He married twice with the first being a political move to a distant cousin Isabel of Gloucester; this was annulled.