Abbey of St John the Baptist, Falaise King Henry I's Latin charter of 1133 is summarised as follows in English: Confirmations of Henry I's grants were made by his descendants King Henry II (1154-1189) and by his son King John (1199-1216). Abbey of St John the Baptist, Falaise The Abbey of St John the Baptist (French: "Abbaye Saint-Jean de Falaise"), in the diocese of Séez, in Falaise, Normandy, was an Augustinian abbey for Premonstratensian Canons and hospital founded in 1127 by "Goinfrid", (French: "Gonfroy", Latin: "Gonfridus"). A pilgrim had died of hunger and exhaustion having taken shelter in a barn belonging to Goinfrid, son of Roger or
John I of Sweden as the "breech-less jarl". John retained his dignity until his father King Sverker was beaten in the Battle of Lena in 1208, later to be killed in the Battle of Gestilren in 1210. His rival Erik Knutsson, from the House of Eric, became King Eric X of Sweden. When King Eric died suddenly in fever in 1216, the teen-aged John was hailed king by the Swedish aristocracy against the will of the Pope in Rome. The Danish King Valdemar Sejr also opposed the choice, since the posthumous son of Eric X was a nephew of his. In Sweden itself the