William the Lion
historical figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 8 anchored passages
King William · William · William his father · William's daughters · the Scots King · the old King
in the texts
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
William the Lion, King of Scotland, whose capture, treaties, and submissions to Henry II, Richard I, and John shaped the Anglo-Scottish relationship addressed in Magna Carta.
William the Lion died at Stirling on 4th December, 1214, and Alexander’s peaceful succession was facilitated by the knowledge that he had the support of John.
The position of the Kings of Scots remained ambiguous, until William the Lion was placed at a terrible disadvantage by his capture at Alnwick in 1174.
English succour was asked and paid for by a treaty sealed at Norham on 7th February, 1212, by which William granted to John the right to marry the young Alexander, then fourteen years of age, “sicut hominem suum ligium,” to whomsoever he would, at any time within the next six years, but always “without disparagement.
A Protest Against Law-Taxes
English monarch under whose statute a tax on pardons was first imposed.
Forty shillings is the tax imposed on pardons, by a statute of King William (5.