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King John's House, Tollard Royal, from the church porch. King John's House is a former manor house in the south Wiltshire village of Tollard Royal, England. Just south of the church, the building has at its core a 13th-century hall house. [1] Remodelling in the 16th and 17th centuries added wings, in part timber-framed.
John (24 December 1166 – 19 October 1216) was King of England from 1199 until his death in 1216. He lost the Duchy of Normandy and most of his other French lands to King Philip II of France, resulting in the collapse of the Angevin Empire and contributing to the subsequent growth in power of the French Capetian dynasty during the 13th century.
The large house known as King John's House, just south of the church, which is a former manor house and later a farmhouse, [15] has at its core a 13th-century hall house. Remodelling in the 16th and 17th centuries added wings, in part timber-framed.
King John's Palace is a ruined Norman merchant's house in Southampton, England, incorrectly believed for a period to have been used by King John, resulting in its modern name. The west wall of the house was converted to form part of the city's defensive walls in the early 14th century and its archways contain what may be Britain's earliest ...
The name "King John's Palace" has been used since the 18th century; prior to that the site was known as the "King's Houses". It is not known how or when the building became associated with King John as he only spent a total of nine days here. The earliest reference to the King's Houses dates back to 1164 during the reign of Henry II (1154 ...
King John's House, Tollard Royal, Wiltshire Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title King John's House .
Pitt Rivers, Lieutenant-General, 1890, King John's House, Tollard Royal, Wilts. Printed privately. Pitt Rivers, Lieutenant-General, 1900, A Short Guide to the Larmer Grounds, Rushmore; King John's House, and The Museum at Farnham, Dorset
The Angevin kings of England (/ ˈ æ n dʒ ɪ v ɪ n /; "from Anjou") were Henry II and his sons, Richard I and John, who ruled England from 1154 to 1216.With ancestral lands in Anjou, they were related to the Norman kings of England through Matilda, the daughter of Henry I, and Henry II's mother.