King John I signed the Magna Carta in 1215. It said the king had to obey the law like everyone else, and that the Lords had a right to replace him if he did not.
While John was king all of the lands in France that his father had reigned over, were lost.
During King John's rein English began its rise as the county's language. Before John French had been the language of royalty.
King John is the evil king in the story of Robin Hood. John was unpopular becaused he taxed everyone to pay for the Third Crusade, but also, it is thought, because he wasnot a very nice person.
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King of England,"Plantagenet" HENRY II
When Henry II married Eleanor he acquired Normandy and Aquitaine, together amounting to half of modern France.
He was the first Plantagenet King, the name acquired through his father.
He ruled as King of England 1154 to 1189.
Henry's greatest contribution to English culture was the development of courts and trials which moved the country on a path away from trial by ordeal and toward trial by law.
Henry is also remembered for the murder of his good friend and antagonist Thomas a Becket. Henry believed the king was more powerful than the church. Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, said the church was more powerful than the king. Some of King Henry's men murdered Thomas in his church in 1170.
Richard was King of England from 6 JUL 1189 until his death.
He led the Third Crusade.
In the Robin Hood stories Richard is the "Good" king, but he actually spent very little time in England and did not speak English.
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1930 census Glen is divorced. He is a veteran of WW I. He is working as a garage mechanic and living with his mother and sister, Harriet.
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The Greely genealogy continues in the "Greely Manual" thus:
Jacob Greely (b. 1762 Salisbury, MA) son of
Jacob Greeley (b.1739 Salisbury, MA) son of:
Samuel Greely b. 1716 Salisbury, MA) son of:
Jonathon Greele (b. 1672-3 Salisbury, MA) son of:
Philip Grele (born 1644 Salisbury, MA) son of:
Andrew Greele (born 1617 Great Britian) - Andrew came to America before 1640 and was a proprietor of Salisbury, MA.
Page 2: "The Greely Clan originated on the Island of Barra in Scotland. Original spellings were MacGrele and MacGrail. This data courtesy of Barbara Myers Parmelee"
Page 3 refers to "Genealogy of the Greely-Greeley Family," published by George Hiram Greeley in 1905, printed by Frank Wood of Boston, MA.