Great Britain
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...unsuccessful. A temporary victory of the nobles bore fruit in the most noted of all English constitutional documents, the Magna Carta (1215). The recurring baronial wars of the 13th cent. (see Barons War ; Montfort, Simon de, earl of Leicester ) were...