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The Mystery of King John's Treasure
About this book
A study of the final ten days of England's King John in East Anglia and the truth about what might have happened to his missing treasure.
Sunday evening, October 9th, 1216. King John is facing continued civil war and a devastating French invasionātreacherous times. We discover him crossing the tidal marshes of the Fenlands of East Anglia. He is about to lose England's crown jewels, his gem collection, and sackfuls of silver coins with his image on them: a treasure trove.
What happened? What was he doing in that remote and windswept place? Why did he take the crown jewels with him? And why did he die so soon afterwards?
Eight hundred years of searches by Fenfolk, academics, newspaper magnates, Victorian eccentrics and even an American research company have found nothing. No golden chalice, no pearl studied casket, no coins. Why?
We follow King John at that vulnerable time, day by day, and reveal for the first time some surprising and interesting answers to the many questions posed by the mystery of his lost treasure.
Sunday evening, October 9th, 1216. King John is facing continued civil war and a devastating French invasionātreacherous times. We discover him crossing the tidal marshes of the Fenlands of East Anglia. He is about to lose England's crown jewels, his gem collection, and sackfuls of silver coins with his image on them: a treasure trove.
What happened? What was he doing in that remote and windswept place? Why did he take the crown jewels with him? And why did he die so soon afterwards?
Eight hundred years of searches by Fenfolk, academics, newspaper magnates, Victorian eccentrics and even an American research company have found nothing. No golden chalice, no pearl studied casket, no coins. Why?
We follow King John at that vulnerable time, day by day, and reveal for the first time some surprising and interesting answers to the many questions posed by the mystery of his lost treasure.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Sunday 9 October 1216; Late Afternoon at Lynn
- Chapter 2 What Might Be in the Treasure?
- Chapter 3 All Good Stories Begin Somewhere
- Chapter 4 Where it all Happened;the Interminable Fenlands
- Chapter 5 Late Sunday Night 10 October 1216
- Chapter 6 John, the Runt Who Would be King
- Chapter 7 Conflict with the Church
- Chapter 8 Who Exactly Were the Mysterious Knights Templar?
- Chapter 9 Monday Morning at Lynn 10 October 1216
- Chapter 10 Money, and Magna Carta
- Chapter 11 How the French Kept the Pot Boiling
- Chapter 12 The French in Conquering Mode
- Chapter 13 Johnās Progress Through Lincolnshire
- Chapter 14 Early Tuesday 11 October 1216 at Lynn
- Chapter 15 The Elusive Fenfolk
- Chapter 16 Later Tuesday 11 October at Lynn
- Chapter 17 Wednesday 12 October at Wisbech and onwards
- Chapter 18 Overnight Wednesday 12 October to Thursday 13 October at The Priory at Swineshead
- Chapter 19 Friday 14 October and Saturday 15 October Sleaford Castle
- Chapter 20 Sunday 16 October to Tuesday 18 October at Newark
- Chapter 21 Aftermath and Resolution
- Chapter 22 And the Treasureā¦
- Chapter 23 āHistory is Nothing but Gossip in the Hope it Might be Trueā Gore Vidal
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography