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Excerpt from History of Ireland, From the Earliest Times to the Present Day, Vol. 2: 1210 to 1547
Deposed and when Richard fell into the hands of the German Emperor and was cast into prison, John sought to bribe the Emperor, so that Richard should never be set free.l When John became king (1199) he was but thirty-two years old, but he was Old in vice of every kind. To remove a possible rival, be murdered his nephew; to gratify his lust, he divorced his wife and took Isabella of Angouleme, a younger and fairer bride 2 his licentiousness was as great as that of an Eastern Sultan, and he had to count as an enemy many a powerful baron whose daughter or sister or wife he had dishonoured. In one Short but inglorious campaign (1206) he lost those French possessions which, since the days of Rollo, had belonged to his ancestors and not content with all this, he had provoked a quarrel with the Pope and for three years had all England under interdict. Such was John and such his record when he came to Ireland in 1 210.
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