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 bought back the independence of his kingdom;
and his successors, Kings of Scotland, had been wont to do fealty and homage to the Kings of England;
William’s daughters, Margaret and Isabel, became wards of John, who had the right to bestow them in marriage.
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.