| The Magna Carta was a document or charter signed in June 1215 by King John and the Barons at Runnymede on an island in the river Thames. The charter reinstated old feudal contracts first drawn up in the times of William the Conqueror between the king and his people. The Barons wanted to limit the king's power. Stephen Langton, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was at the centre of a dispute between King John and the Pope Innocent III. After the death of the previous archbishop, the Pope wanted Langton for the position but King John did not. Langton joined the Barons who opposed the King and it was through Langton's work that the new charter was drawn up. | See Also
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