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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 49. Chapters: 1215 births, 1215 by country, 1215 deaths, 1215 establishments, 1215 in Europe, 1215 in law, Conflicts in 1215, Magna Carta, Pope Celestine V, Pope John XXI, Robert Kilwardby, Kublai Khan, Mecia Lopes de Haro, H j Tokimasa, Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale, Jayavarman VII, Tekle Haymanot, Eustace, Eleanor of Leicester, John of Ibelin, Giles de Braose, David VII of Georgia, Roger de Leybourne, William of Moerbeke, List of state leaders in 1215, Eisai, Michael I Komnenos Doukas, Catherine of Ymseborg, Esclarmonde of Foix, Philip de Valognes, Beatrice d'Este, Queen of Hungary, Meir of Rothenburg, Gerard de Camville, Henry II, Prince of Anhalt-Aschersleben, Ali ibn abi bakr al-Harawi, Halesowen Abbey, Battle of Beijing, Giraut de Bornelh, Maria of Antioch-Armenia, Battle of Riga, Peter of Poitiers, Manegold of Berg, Peter de Montfort, Rurik Rostislavich, John I, Count of Dreux, Sicardo, Battle of Lehola, Manfred II, Marquess of Saluzzo, Otto I, Jacopino della Scala, 1215 in poetry, 1215 in Ireland. Excerpt: Magna Carta is an English charter, originally issued in the year 1215, and reissued later in the 13th century in modified versions that omit certain temporary provisions, including the most direct challenges to the monarch's authority. The charter first passed into law in 1225. The 1297 version, with the long title (originally in Latin) The Great Charter of the Liberties of England, and of the Liberties of the Forest, still remains on the statute books of England and Wales. The 1215 Charter required King John of England to proclaim certain liberties, and accept that his will was not arbitrary, for example by explicitly accepting that no "freeman" (in the sense of non-serf) could be punished except through the law of the land, a right which is still in existence today. Magna Carta was the first document forced o...
