Key Dates

• 1204 - King John signs Magna Carta, which limits the power of the monarch
• When was the Assize of Arms + what is it?

  Signed 1181

  • posses & bear fire arms in service of the king
• When was the Assize of Clarendon?

  1166
• When was the Assize of Northampton?

  1176
• When was the inquest of Sheriffs?

  1170
• When was Cartae Baronum?

  1166

  governmental reforms
• When was Mort d'Ancestor?

  1166
• When was the Assize of Woodstock and what is it?

  1184

  • Increased forest legislation
• When was the Papal bull given to Henry II?

  Laudabiliter was given in 1155
• When was Becket exiled?

  1164
• When did Henry II & Eleanor of Aquitane marry?

  1152
• When does Henry II become King?

  1154
• When was the treaty of Montmirial?

  1169
• When was the Battle of Bouvine?

  1214
• When was England put under interdict?

  1208
• When was the Compromise of Avranches?

  1172
• When was Scotland sold their independence by Richard?

  1189
• When was the Treaty of Falaise?

  1174
• When was the Poitou campaign?

  1206
• What is the Count of Maurienne 1169?

  • John gets 3 castles promised by Henry. Loudon, Chinon and Mirebeau
• when did Henry II gain Normandy?

  1150- granted to him by his grandfather
• when did Henry II gain Anjou?

  1151- inherited upon his father's death
• when did Henry II gain Aquitane?

  1152
• When did Henry II gain England?

  1154 - maternal inheritance
• When did Henry II gain Brittany?

  1166- through his son who was betrothed to Constance
• When was the end of the Great Rebellion?

  1174
• When did Thomas Becket become Arch-Bishop?


  1162
• When was the Treaty of Wallingford signed?

  1153
• When did Becket die?

  December 1170