Books written by J. C. Holt

  • Magna Carta

    James Clarke Holt, J. C. Holt, Professor Emeritus of Medieval History J C Holt ... so Simon de Montfort swore to observe and maintain the Statute of Pamiers in 1212,23 Andrew II of Hungary the Golden Bull in 123124 and Alfonso III of ...

  • Colonial England, 1066-1215

    When Henry gave William Mauduit the lands of Michael of Hanslope with his daughter Matilda in marriage, the charter stated that Michael had made the king his heir.14% One further limitation is striking and very important.

  • Magna Carta

    The book sets the events of 1215 and the Charter itself in the context of the law, politics and administration of England and Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

  • Domesday Studies: Papers Read at the Novocentenary Conference of the Royal Historical Society and the Institute of British Geographers, Winchester,...

    The name Dunelina , a variant of Duvelina , occurs subsequently in the Beaumont family : David Crouch , The Beaumont Twins ( Cambridge , 1986 ) , 117 . 64 CDF , no . 373 ; Crouch , Beaumont Twins , 204–5 ; cf.

  • Magna Carta

    Ut barones qui fundaverunt abbatias, unde habent cartas regum vel antiquam tenuram, habeant custodiam earum cum vacaverint. [M.C., c. 46.] Si rex Walenses dissaisierit vel elongaverit de terris vel libertatibus, vel de rebus aliis in ...

  • Colonial England, 1066-1215

    This theme is defined in a previously unpublished lecture on Colonial England, given in 1994, but it runs through all the sixteen essays in this collection.