Fair Isle ( Feedero ) depicted close to Shetland ( Hetlandia ) on the 1539 Carta Marina

A walrus, labeled Ros marus piscis, is depicted in а 16th-century map of Scandinavia ( the Carta Marina ).

Olaus Magnus, who depicted the walrus in the Carta Marina in 1539, first referred to the walrus as the ros marus, probably a Latinization of morž, and this was adopted by Linnaeus in his binomial nomenclature.

Iceland on the Carta Marina by Olaus Magnus.

It is shown on the Carta Marina in the Frisian form of Husem.

Ingria may be seen represented in the easternmost part of the Carta Marina ( 1539 )

1544 depicting various sea monsters ; compiled from the Carta Marina.

Mainland, as " Pomona " from the not wholly accurate Carta Marina of 1539.

Mousa on the Carta Marina in 1539

The maelstrom off Norway, as illustrated by Olaus Magnus on the Carta Marina, 1539.

The Carta Marina from 1539 by Olaus Magnus.

The Danevirke ( shown in red ) on the 16th-century Carta Marina

Starkad as illustrated on Carta Marina ( 1539 ) by Olaus Magnus.

Biarmia as illustrated on Carta Marina ( 1539 ) by Olaus Magnus. Bjarmaland ( also spelled Bjarmland and Bjarmia ) was a territory mentioned in Norse sagas up to the Viking Age and-beyond-in geographical accounts until the 16th century.

The Carta Marina

*" Carta Marina, Lafreris edition 1572 "- Antoine Lafréry's ( 1512-1577 ) edition from 1572, digitalized by the National Library of Sweden in Stockholm

* CIPHER Project-Exploring the Carta Marina

* Carta Marina ( Uppsala University Library )

*" University of Minnesota Carta Marina "-the original or Pope Paul III ( 1468 – 1549 ) map from 1539, in jpeg images.

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The UK has an unwritten constitution — the constitution of this state is usually found in statutes, such as the Magna Carta ( see Holt, J. C., Magna Carta, 2nd edition 1992 ), the Petition of Right, the Bill of Rights, The Act of Settlement 1700 and the Parliament Act 1911 and Parliament Act 1949.

* Carta a las Iglesias ( Letter to the Churches ), Universidad Centroamericana " José Simeón Cañas ", Year 17, No. 371, February 1 – 15, 1997 ( in Spanish-full edition devoted to Rutilio Grande and his legacy, includes text of the February, 1977 sermon )

* Carta memorial de Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa a S. M., escrita en el Cuzco a 4 de marzo de 1572

The most important single article of the Magna Carta, related to " habeas corpus ", provided that the king was not permitted to imprison, outlaw, exile or kill anyone at a whim — there must be due process of law first.

He met their leaders along with their French and Scot allies at Runnymede, near London on 15 June 1215 to seal the Great Charter ( Magna Carta in Latin ), which imposed legal limits on the king's personal powers.

The baronial revolt at the end of John's reign led to the signing of the Magna Carta, a document often considered to be an early step in the evolution of the constitution of the United Kingdom.

Langton's efforts at mediation created a charter capturing the proposed peace agreement ; it was later renamed Magna Carta, or " Great Charter ".

A formal document to record the agreement was created by the royal chancery on 15 July: this was the original Magna Carta, though it was not known by that name at the time.

* 1215 — King John signs Magna Carta at Runnymede.

The barons assembled there before they met King John at Runnymede in 1215, and Stephen Langton held a consecration there shortly after the issue of Magna Carta.

For a period during World War II, Shepton Mallet Prison was used to store important national records from the Public Record Office, including Magna Carta, the Domesday Book, the logbooks of HMS Victory, dispatches from the Battle of Waterloo, and the " scrap of paper " signed by Hitler and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain at the Munich Conference of September 1938.

Despite their differences, William remained loyal throughout the hostilities between John and his barons which culminated on 15 June 1215 at Runnymede with the sealing of Magna Carta.

" Within a century of the Norman Conquest of 1066, as in the case of Thomas Becket in 1164, there arose the practice of sending to each greater baron a personal summons demanding his attendance at the King's Council, which evolved into the Parliament and later into the House of Lords, whilst as was stipulated in Magna Carta of 1215, the lesser barons of each county would receive a single summons as a group through the sheriff, and representatives only from their number would be elected to attend on behalf of the group.

He was present at the signing of the Magna Carta in 1215.

For nearly a year he was superseded by the cardinal-legate Nicholas of Tusculum ; but returning in 1215 was present at the conference of Runnymede, when the Magna Carta was signed.

He held a large party at Arundel Castle to celebrate the 600th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta shortly before his death in 1815.

On December 18, 2007, David Rubenstein, representing the Carlyle Group, purchased the Magna Carta ( one of seventeen copies ) at Sotheby's Auction House in New York City.

His first episcopal act was calling a council at Reading in July 1279 in order to implement ecclesiastical reform, but Peckham's specifying that a copy of Magna Carta should be hung in all cathedral and collegiate churches offended the king as an unnecessary intrusion into political affairs.

One of the keys to the British Agricultural Revolution was the traditional restricted role of kings and the so called " aristocrats " as exemplified by a long legal tradition going back to at least the signing of the Magna Carta by King John of England in 1217.

Historian Michael Wood ( historian ) discusses the open field system at Laxton in episode 2 " Domesday to Magna Carta " of his television series Michael Wood's Story of England ( TV series ).

The copy of Magna Carta belonging to Lincoln Cathedral also left Britain in 1939 for the first time to be in the British Pavilion at the fair.

Like most chronicles, it is now valued not so much for what was culled from previous writers, as for its full and lively narrative of contemporary events from 1215 to 1235, including the signing of Magna Carta by King John at Runnymede.

Gray was present at the signing of Magna Carta in June 1215.

In 1215 Gilbert and his father were two of the barons made Magna Carta sureties and championed Louis " le Dauphin " of France in the First Barons ' War, fighting at Lincoln under the baronial banner.

In 1225 he was present at the confirmation of the Magna Carta by Henry III.

King John and the barons were to have signed Magna Carta at Brackley Castle, but they eventually did so at Runnymede.

The Statutes of Mortmain were meant to re-establish the prohibition against donating land to the Church for purposes of avoiding feudal services which had been hinted at in the Magna Carta in 1215 and specifically defined in the Great Charter of 1217.