John of England

King John of England (24th December 1167 - 19th October 1216) was the King of England from 6th April 1199 until his death. He signed the Magna Carta in 1215.

While the real King John was in London taking the Crusader's Oath, the android Kamelion was being used in a plot by the Master to sabotage Earth history by preventing King John's signing of the Magna Carta, an event pivotal to the development of parliamentary democracy on that planet. The plot was foiled by the intervention of the Doctor. (DW: The King's Demons)


 * Earlier in his personal timestream, the Doctor had met John's elder brother Richard the Lionheart and sister Princess Joanna in Palestine. (DW: The Crusade)

Behind the scenes
The following year, whilst eluding rebel forces, John sent his baggage train across the square-mouthed estuary on the northwest margin of East Anglia, only to have the Crown Jewels it carried accidentally dropped and sunk in its waters. Tegan Jovanka's foreknowledge of this event was summed up in her assessment of John as "the one who lost something in the Wash." The Doctor had previously met the historical John's sister, Lady Joanna in The Crusade)