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(or the Great Charter of Ireland) is an issue of the English ''
Magna Charta Hiberniae 1216 (Great Charter of Ireland)
William Sharp McKechnie, Historical Introduction to Magna Carta (1914)
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Statute Law Revision Act 2007
1210s in law Irish laws Law of Northern Ireland Legal history of Ireland 1216 in Europe 13th century in Ireland Medieval charters and cartularies {{Ireland-law-stub
(or the Great Charter of Ireland) is an issue of the English ''Magna Carta
(Medieval Latin for "Great Charter of Freedoms"), commonly called (also ''Magna Charta''; "Great Charter"), is a royal charter of rights agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215. First drafted by t ...
'' (or Great Charter of Liberties) in Ireland
Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. Ireland is the s ...
. King Henry III of England
Henry III (1 October 1207 – 16 November 1272), also known as Henry of Winchester, was King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine from 1216 until his death in 1272. The son of King John and Isabella of Angoulême, Henry ...
's Charter of 1216 was issued for Ireland on 12 November 1216 but not transmitted to Ireland until February 1217; it secured rights for the Anglo-Norman Anglo-Norman may refer to:
*Anglo-Normans, the medieval ruling class in England following the Norman conquest of 1066
*Anglo-Norman language
**Anglo-Norman literature
*Anglo-Norman England, or Norman England, the period in English history from 1066 ...
magnates in Ireland. Art Cosgrove ''A New History of Ireland, Volume II: Medieval Ireland 1169-1534'' p.152, Oxford University Press, 1987 The Charter was reissued in 1217 as in England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe ...
. It was in effect the application of ''Magna Carta'' to Ireland, with appropriate substitutions (such as "Dublin" for "London", and "Irish Church" for "Church of England").
The only known copy of the Charter was once to be found in the ''Red Book of the Dublin Court of Exchequer'', a manuscript volume compiled in the fourteenth century. The ''Red Book'' was destroyed in the explosion at the Four Courts in Dublin
Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range. At the 2016 ...
, in 1922, but the Charter had been recorded by H. F. Berry in ''Early Statutes of Ireland'' (1907). Magna Carta Hiberniae 1216 (1 Hen. 3) is now a retained statute in the Republic of Ireland
Ireland ( ga, Éire ), also known as the Republic of Ireland (), is a country in north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 counties of the island of Ireland. The capital and largest city is Dublin, on the eastern side of the island. ...
under the Statute Law Revision Act 2007, s.2(2)(a), Schedule 1.
Further reading
* ''Early Statutes of Ireland'' H. F. Berry, 1907 * ''Magna Charta Hiberniae'', pp. 31–33, H.G. Richardson, ''Irish Historical Studies''References
External links
Magna Charta Hiberniae 1216 (Great Charter of Ireland)
William Sharp McKechnie, Historical Introduction to Magna Carta (1914)
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Statute Law Revision Act 2007
1210s in law Irish laws Law of Northern Ireland Legal history of Ireland 1216 in Europe 13th century in Ireland Medieval charters and cartularies {{Ireland-law-stub