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 * — granted title of, thereby officially establishing , the first  in the  of.
 * , Friday —  (–) became King of  upon the death of his older brother . His coronation took place in . The Angevin Empire he had inherited stretched from the Pyrenees to the Scottish border (the Tweed). John was the first Plantagenet to reside in England. The name Lackland came from his not being a first son and thus would lack land.