Northern Barons
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the northern barons · his northern magnates · northern knights · the malcontents scattered through the north of England
spoken of as
1 expressionThe Northern Barons1 mention
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John (English)
—because at his accession there remained unpaid (particularly from the fiefs of the northern knights) large arrears of the scutages imposed in his brother’s reign, and because in June, 1212, he drew the feudal chain tight by a drastic and galling measure.
in the texts
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
The barons of northern England, repeatedly identified as the most persistent and militant opponents of King John's fiscal and feudal demands.
Thus his Exchequer was amply replenished, while he was able for a time to conciliate his most inveterate opponents, the northern barons, by remitting during several years the hated burden of a scutage.
The northern barons, who had already refused to serve in person, now refused likewise to pay the scutage.
On 25th August, after John had set out with his mercenaries to punish his northern magnates, Stephen Langton held a meeting with the great men of the south.