The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons Name in the Magna Charta and Some of Their.....

by Frederick Lewis Weis

Book Overview

At the signing of the Magna Charta, twenty-five men, representing the barons, signed as sureties of the baronial performance, in effect pledging the barons to fulfill their obligations to the Crown in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806313056
• ISBN13: 9780806313054
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Substance: Excellent. Form: Not as advertised.

The scholarship is excellent, well organized and thorough, although the selection of descendants seems somewhat arbitrary. One wonders how they were selected. The appearance of the book, however, is not as described or pictured. The ad has a handsome black or navy blue book. The one that arrived was not.

A must buy for descendants of Magna Carta Sureties

This book is an excellent resource for those researching descents from one of the Magna Carta Barons or those named in the preamble as advisors to King John. Each line is accompanied by a list of sources for the descent from one of the Barons to an American Colonist.

Outstanding Readable Reference Work

While there are numerous reference works relating the descendancy of the Magna Charta Barons, this one is concise, documented and continues across the Atlantic to the early Colonists of North America. Being unencumbered with commentaries on historical events, this book reveals lineage after lineage after lineage providing the researcher with an invaluable tool to document centuries of family history.