Chronicle of Roger of Howden

The fullest single narrative for the year. Howden gives the carucage of 1200 and the Cistercians' refusal to pay it, John's crossing to Normandy, the peace of Le Goulet with Philip on 22 May 1200, the marriage of Louis and Blanche of Castile, John's tour of Aquitaine, his marriage to Isabella of Angouleme on 24 August and her coronation at Westminster on 8 October, the homage of William the Lion to John at Lincoln on 22 November, and the death and burial of Bishop Hugh of Lincoln. He also records Sancho VII of Navarre's absence at the Almohad court and Alfonso VIII's seizure of Alava and Guipuzcoa, the interdict on France, the German throne dispute and Sicilian affairs, and he copies many documents in full. Howden was a royal clerk and well informed, but the chronicle stops in 1201.