Prince Louis of France landed at the Isle of Thanet in Kent in May 1216 with a French army invited by the rebel barons. John made no effort to oppose the landing, withdrawing instead. Louis marched to London unopposed. The invasion was the gravest foreign military intervention in England since the Conquest and temporarily made Louis king-in-fact of much of the kingdom.
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