Magna Carta is an English charter which was signed at Runnymede on June 15, 1215. Through this charter the English barons forced John the Lackland to renounce certain rights, respect certain legal procedures, and accept the king’s will would be bound by the law. Magna Carta was the first document forced onto an English King [...]

The Norman Dynasty  The Norman dynasty was founded by William the Conqueror who defeated king Harold II Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, at the Battle of Hastings. It lasted until the Plantagenet dynasty came to power in 1154. Under William I the Domesday Book, a great record of English land-holding, was published; the [...]