Newark-on-Trent Nottinghamshire United Kingdom

Tensions between Louis and the English barons began to increase, prompting a wave of desertions, including William Marshal's son William and William Longespée, who both return to John's faction.

The king returns west but is said to have lost a significant part of his baggage train along the way.

Roger of Wendover provides the most graphic account of this, suggesting that the king's belongings, including the Crown Jewels, were lost as he crossed one of the tidal estuaries which empties into the Wash, being sucked in by quicksand and whirlpools.

Accounts of the incident vary considerably between the various chroniclers and the exact location of the incident has never been confirmed; the losses may have involved only a few of his pack horses.

John's illness grows worse and by the time he reaches Newark Castle he is unable to travel any farther; John dies on the night of October 18.

Numerous—probably fictitious—accounts circulate soon after his death that he had been killed by poisoned ale, poisoned plums or a "surfeit of peaches".