Newark Castle gained a melancholy immortality as the place where King John died on 18-19 October 1216, during the First Barons' War. John had lost his baggage train and the Crown Jewels in the Wash just days before. He arrived at Newark already gravely ill — probably from dysentery — and died in the Bishop of Lincoln's castle. His death transformed the political situation: the barons' French ally Louis had less justification to fight, and the nine-year-old Henry III could be presented as an innocent victim. England gradually reunited.
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