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Causes of Magna Carta
- Finance and Taxes
- John placed huge financial
demands on Barons to pay for his
failed attempt at recapturing
Normandy
- Most of the Barons involved in
Northern Rebellion were
deeply in debt to the Jews or
the King
- Taxes included
scutage, reliefs
(inheritance tax), minors
(rights over wards) and
property of widows.
- John also sold offices and
exploited royal justice by
exacting huge fines
- John placed huge financial
demands on Barons to pay for his
failed attempt at recapturing
Normandy
- The Continent
- The barons lost confidence in
their king after his defeat at
Bouvines in 1214
- The barons had financed Johns
campaigns through extortionate taxes
- The barons lost confidence in
their king after his defeat at
Bouvines in 1214
- John's Personality
- He took the barons and their
son's hostage for surety of
good behaviour
- William de Braose was driven into
exile and his wife and eldest son
starved to death
- Accused of
seducing Barons
wives
- He took the barons and their
son's hostage for surety of
good behaviour
- Selfish Aims of the Barons
- The barons wanted to gain more
power and rights
- Many were in huge debt to
the king and saw a rebellion
as the way out
- The barons wanted to gain more
power and rights
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