Magna Carta

The 25 Barons, Magna Carta.

King John signing the Magna Carta at Runnymede on June 15, 1215. It is historical fact that there were 25 Barons who were commissioned to form the Committee of Barons. Signatories to the Magna Carta and charged with seeing that King John did not renege on his promise to comply with the terms of the Magna Carta as set out in clause 61. Off the 25 Barons I have discovered 9 Barons that I can connect too as Ancestors.

The Barons:

• Eustace de Vesci
• Robert de Ros
• Richard de Percy: 24th Great grand-uncle.
• William de Mowbray
• Roger de Montbegon
• John FitzRobert
• William de Forz
• John de Lacy: 23rd Great grand-father.
• Saer de Quincy, Earl of Winchester: 25th Great grand-father.
• Richard de Montfichet
• William de Huntingfield
• Roger Bigod and Hugh Bigod:
• Robert de Vere
• Geoffrey de Mandeville:
• Henry de Bohun
• Richard de Clare and Gilbert de Clare: 23rd and 24th Great grand-father's
• William D'Albini
• Robert Fitzwalter: 2nd Cousin 24x removed.
• William Hardel
• William de Lanvallei
• William Malet
• William Marshall II: 22nd Great granduncle.
• Geoffrey de Say
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  King John signing the Magna Carta at Runnymede on June 15, 1215. 

  
  

Recommended reading:

Magna Carta, by David Starkey. 

King John, by Marc Norris.

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