There is little detail on this subject for a simple reason: Parliament was not important at this time. Parliament emerged as a political force about 100 years later, and did not become supreme until after the Civil War in the 1640s.
Blame King John. His poor handling of the Hundred Years' War (namely that he lost so much of previously-English-owned land in France) led to tax increases on the nobles (contrary to Robin Hood stories, he tried to avoid raising taxes on the common people), who became pissed off enough that he was spending so much money on a losing war that they forced him to sign the Magna Carta. The Magna Carta was what led to the eventual establishment of Parliament itself.
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There is little detail on this subject for a simple reason: Parliament was not important at this time. Parliament emerged as a political force about 100 years later, and did not become supreme until after the Civil War in the 1640s.
Blame King John. His poor handling of the Hundred Years' War (namely that he lost so much of previously-English-owned land in France) led to tax increases on the nobles (contrary to Robin Hood stories, he tried to avoid raising taxes on the common people), who became pissed off enough that he was spending so much money on a losing war that they forced him to sign the Magna Carta. The Magna Carta was what led to the eventual establishment of Parliament itself.