We all know King John of England, who was forced to sign the Magna Carta, in June 1215. It is called a charter of rights, but they weren't rights for you and me - they were rights for noble folk, the barons - who had something to lose.
King John was an Angevin (Anjou) king, also known as the House of Plantagenet. Such were the links between France and England, that his parents (Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine), his brother (Richard the Lionheart), and his second wife (Isabella of Angouleme), are buried at Fontevraud. King John himself is buried at Worcester Cathedral.
Some pics:
Entrance to the Abbey complex.
The giseants (recumbent effigies). The tombs were ransacked during the Revolution, and the bodies lost, but the effigies survived.
Richard the Lionheart
Isabella
More pics of the Complex.
The refectory
The town.
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