King John Of England

A Peripatetic Kingship:  A Look at King John of England’s Castle Movements in 1215

Historians agree that King John of England was the most peripatetic of all English monarchs.  When traveling with his army, King John’s baggage train of wagons and horse-drawn carts stretched over 2 miles in length, moving at an average pace of 20 miles a day.  Distances traveled not only depended upon the state of the roads and weather but the...