There are two potential claimants to the…

April 1199 CE

There are two potential claimants to the Angevin throne after Richard's death in France on April 6, 1199: John, whose claim rests on being the sole surviving son of Henry II, and young Arthur I of Brittany, who holds a claim as the son of John's elder brother Geoffrey.

Richard appears to have started to recognize John as his heir presumptive in the final years before his death, but the matter is not clear-cut and medieval law gives little guidance as to how the competing claims should be decided.

With Norman law favoring John as the only surviving son of Henry II and Angevin law favoring Arthur as the only son of Henry's elder son, the matter rapidly becomes an open conflict.

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