Poitou
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in the texts
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
Continental region that was the object of John's military campaigns and the specific service the northern barons refused to render.
Writs for its collection had been issued on 26th May, 1214, an exception being indeed allowed for tenants personally present in the King’s army in Poitou.
His projected campaign in Poitou required all the levies he could raise.
It was otherwise with the duties of military service, which were rendered every year more unwillingly, partly because of the increased frequency of warlike expeditions, partly because of the greater cost of campaigning in distant lands like Poitou, partly because the English barons were completely out of sympathy with John’s foreign policy and with him.