King John died at Newark Castle on 19 October 1216, transforming the political situation. His nine-year-old son became Henry III under the regency of William Marshal. The barons who had invited Louis of France were now fighting a child king rather than the hated John, and many began to reconsider. John death at Newark indirectly saved the Plantagenet dynasty.
John: royal household reduced by disease and desertion
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