Magna Carta of Chester
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Magna Carta of Chester, was a 13th-century charter of rights in the style of Magna Carta of Runnymede.
The Runnymede Charter of Liberties did not apply to the shire of Chester, which at the time was a separate feudal domain. So Ranulf de Meschines, Earl of Chester granted his own Magna Carta.[1] Some of its articles were similar to the Runnymede Charter.
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The Earldom of Chester was the only county palatine on the Welsh Marches at the time.[3][4]Ranulf de Meschines had established Chester as a semi independent feifdom under Henry I. By Ranulfs time Chester was still semi-independent.
Ranulf was a strong supporter of Magna Carta and had been loyal to the king in 1215–16 during the First Barons' War.[5][6] He was one of the few magnates to witness the Magna Carta of 1215 and played a leading military role in the civil war by virtue of his extensive estates and numerous castles. Ranulf stood with William Marshal and the Earl of Derby and Warwick on the Kings side, whilst the other nobility stood with the barons or remained aloof from the conflict. Before John's death, rebel barons had offered the throne of England to Louis, the dauphin. Louis had invaded the country during the summer of 1216 and had taken Winchester. Ranulf de Blondeville put his political weight behind re-issuing the Magna Carta in 1216 and 1217; his military experience was utilised in defeating the rebels at Lincoln in 1217. He also witnessed the 1225 re-issue of the Runnymead Magna Carta. His general support for Johns Magna Carta, makes the issuing of his own no surprise.
References
- ↑ Hewitt, H.J. Mediaeval Cheshir.e Manchester University Press(1929) p9.
- ↑ Wrexham County Borough Council: The Princes and the Marcher Lords
- ↑ Wrexham County Borough Council: The Princes and the Marcher Lords
- ↑ Holt, J.C. Magna Carta. Cambridge University Press 2nd Edition (1992) pp379-380
- ↑ Turner, Hilary L. (1971). Town Defences in England and Wales. London: John Baker.
- ↑ Carpenter, David (2004). The Struggle for Mastery: The Penguin History of Britain 1066–1284. London: Penguin p290.
Further reading
- Swallow, Rachel. 2014. ‘Gateways to Power: The Castles of Ranulf III of Chester and Llywelyn the Great of Gwynedd’, Archaeological Journal, vol. 171, pp. 291–314.
