The twenty five Barons were the feudal barons who forced King John to agree to the Articles of the Barons and to put his royal seal in the meadow of Runnymede on June 15th, 1215. It then led to the issuance of the Magna Carta on June 19th, 1215. Even if their true objective probably was to get rid of this king and appoint another one, who would be more amenable to their requests, even if most of the points that they had King John to agree to in the end aimed to deal with their own issues, ie those of the nobility (at the difference of the Charter of the Forest), the Magna Carta ended up as one of the most recognisable and influential constitutional documents ever made.
The twenty five Barons were the following: Richard, Earl of Clare; William de Fors, Count of Aumale; Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of Gloucester; Saer de Quincy, Earl of Winchester; Henry de Bohun, Earl of Hereford; Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk; Robert de Vere, Earl of Oxford; William Marshall junior; Robert fitz Walter; Gilbert de Clare; Eustace de Vescy; Hugh Bigod; William de Mowbray; Serlo the mercer, Mayor of London; William de Lanvelli; Robert de Ros; John de Lacy, Constable of Chester; Richard de Percy; John fitz Robert; William Malet; Geoffrey de Say; Robert de Montbegon; William of Huntingfield; Robert de Munfichet; William d’Aubigne of Belvoir.
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