Roger of Wendover · Atlas

in the texts

Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John20th Century · English

Medieval chronicler repeatedly cited as the narrative source for key episodes of John's reign, including the Nottingham hostages, the barons' conspiracy, and the negotiations preceding Runnymede.

Roger of Wendover gives a graphic account:

v the years of crisis 1213 15 ¶

The intermediaries, in the words of Roger of Wendover, “without guile carried back to the barons the message which had been guilefully imposed on them.

v the years of crisis 1213 15 ¶

Before tasting meat, in Roger of Wendover’s graphic narrative, he hanged twenty–eight Welsh hostages, boys of noble family, whom he held as sureties that Llywelyn would keep the peace.

iv richard i and john ¶