Eleanor of Aquitane, played so brilliantly by Katherine Hepburn in her Oscar-winning performance in Lion in Winter, was a strong woman. No known pictures of her exist except for the image on her stone coffin at her beloved Fontevraud Abbey. Click on any of the pictures for a closer view.

King John's family was known as the Angevins. This link, to the official Royal Monarchy website, has an excellent background on the Angevins and a great analysis of the Magna Carta.

This Yale site is dedicated to definitions of unfamiliar terms in the Magna Carta. Go to the text at the top of the document and click on a highlighted word. That will take you to the definition at the bottom of the page. You do not have to leave the document to look up unfamiliar words.

Rudyard Kipling's poem, What Say the Reeds at Runnymede?

King John had many castles. This is one, an early Norman fortress.

A long, but interesting, article on another point of view regarding Magna Carta. The picture of King John and the barons, at the very top of the page, is worth a visit all by itself.

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