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How long after King John sealed Magna Carta at Runnymede did Pope Innocent III annul it?
Sealed 15 June 1215; annulled 24 August 1215. The First Barons' War followed within weeks. The canonical version of the charter is the 1225 reissue under Henry III.
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The Charter the English Barons Made King John Sign in a Surrey Meadow on 15 June 1215 That Was Annulled by the Pope Ten Weeks Later The English barons forced King John to seal Magna Carta at Runnymede on 15 June 1215, accepting limits on royal arbitrary action. Pope Innocent III annulled it on 24 August 1215. John repudiated it. The First Barons' War followed within weeks. The charter was reissued — with modifications — in 1216, 1217, and 1225, and the 1225 version became the canonical text that survives in English common law to the present.
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