King John and his jewels.
King John infamously lost the Crown Jewels while trying to cross The Wash estuary in 1216, and a scientist has now discovered that the maligned monarch's treasure was seized by the sea as a result of a freakishly large and powerful tide....
John (24 December 1166 – 19 October 1216) was King of England from 1199 until his death.
King John lost the treasure to The Wash during an ill fated crossing from King's Lynn on October 12, 1216 - just days before the unpopular monarch's death in Newark Castle.
King John, who signed the Magna Carta a year before his death in 1216, lost the treasure during an ill fated crossing of The Wash – an estuary that divides Lincolnshire and Norfolk on October 12, 1216.
When his army tried to cross the mudscapes of the tidal estuary that Britons call the Wash, rising waters caught his baggage train. The wagons and their contents, including the king's treasure, were lost. More than 800 years later, King John's hoard has not been found. But it still lures believers.
In October 1216, King John of England lost the crown jewels while leading a campaign against rebellious barons. Against all advice, John—who is chiefly remembered for being forced to sign the Magna Carta, one of the cornerstones of civil liberty—took a shortcut via the Wash, a tidal estuary on England's east coast.
The name Wash may have been derived from Old English wāse meaning mud, slime or ooze. The word Wasche is mentioned in the popular dictionary Promptorium parvulorum of about 1440 as a water or a ford (vadum). A chronicle states that King Edward VI passed the Wasshes as he visited the town of King's Lynn in 1548.
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King John lost the treasure to The Wash during an ill fated crossing on October 12, 1216 - just days before the unpopular monarch's death in Newark Castle.
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Thomas Blood's theft of the Crown Jewels in 1671
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