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12 unusual facts about Magna Carta


Alan of Galloway

Alan is listed as one of the 16 men who counseled King John regarding the Magna Carta.

An Cafe

The band released even more singles in 2006 until their second studio album, Magnya Carta (a play on "Magna Carta").

Avalon Project

The project contains online electronic copies of documents dating back to the beginning of history, making it possible to study the original text of not only very famous documents such as the Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights, and the United States Bill of Rights, but also the text of less well known but significant documents which mark turning points in the history of law and rights.

Dragon International Film Studios

Starring Paul Giamatti, the film focuses on the great siege of Rochester Castle when, following the signing of the Magna Carta, King John gathered an army to reclaim his power and exert bloody revenge on those who defied him.

Jay Schellen

Schellen and Sherwood were the only members of World Trade for appearances on two tribute albums released on the Magna Carta record label in 1995.

John Evan Thomas

Thomas produced two of the life-sized bronze statues, depicting the fifteen barons and two bishops who signed the Magna Carta, which line the walls of the Lords' Chamber at the House of Lords and were cast in 1847−1851.

Kent v. Dulles

The Court then surveyed Anglo-Saxon law under the Magna Carta, citing Article 42 in support of the right to travel as a "liberty" right.

Rare Book Room

It includes Library of Congress copies of Poor Richard's Almanack by Benjamin Franklin, and other rare editions: a Gutenberg Bible of 1455, William Harvey's book on the circulation of blood, Galileo ’s Sidereus Nuncius, the first printing of the United States Bill of Rights, and the Magna Carta.

The King's Demons

The Doctor's claim that King John wanted the Magna Carta as much as his nobles and that he could have defeated the barons easily is historically untrue.

Disguised as King John, the Master intends that Kamelion will behave so appallingly so as to provoke a rebellion and topple the real King from his throne, thus robbing the world of Magna Carta, the foundation of parliamentary democracy.

Tommaso Gazzarini

Archbishop Langton and Saxon, English, and Norman Barons in the Abbey of Edmonsbury demand King John to confirm the Magna Carta (incomplete)

Yeoveney Halt railway station

It was renamed Runymede Halt on 9 July 1934, and again renamed Yeoveney Halt in 4 November 1935, to deter tourists who came seeking the place where Magna Carta was signed (which was some miles away by road).


Ankerwycke Yew

On the opposite bank of the River Thames are the meadows of Runnymede and this tree is said to have been witness to the signing of Magna Carta.

Canons Ashby House

They also made the gold enameled casket that held the Magna Carta which was on view in the United States Capitol, Washington, DC in 1976 for the United States Bicentennial.

Cedric the Forester

Set in the time of King Richard the Lionhearted, Cedric plays a pivotal role in the signing of the Magna Carta.

Charles Stourton, 26th Baron Mowbray

Another relative, William de Mowbray, was one of the barons who forced King John to put his seal to Magna Carta in 1215; as a direct descendant, Charles travelled to Washington, D.C. in 1976 with a parliamentary delegation that presented one of the four copies of the Magna Carta held by the British Museum to the U.S. Congress.

David Horspool

His next book, published in August 2009, is The English Rebel: One Thousand Years of Trouble-making from the Normans to the Nineties - a history of rebellion from Magna Carta to Arthur Scargill.

John de Halton

In January 1298 Halton appeared at a meeting in York held by Roger Bigod the Earl of Norfolk and Humphrey de Bohun the Earl of Hereford and excommunicated all opponents of Magna Carta.

Runnymede Collegiate Institute

His is estate was called “Runnymede” after the field of Runnymede, where King John of England signed the Magna Carta.

William Wynne Ryland

In his later life Ryland abandoned line engraving, and introduced chalk-engraving, in which the line is composed of stippled dots, and in which he transcribed Mortimer's "King John Signing Magna Carta", and copied the drawings of the Old Masters and the works of Angelica Kauffman.