King John's reign was an utter catastrophe.

We know John as the King of England, but he should have had so much more than that. When John was born, his father, King Henry II, ruled over the Angevin Empire, which included England and nearly half France. His mother, the infamous Eleanor of Aquitaine, brought even more territories in the South of France. Had the Angevin Empire continued, France and England might still be one country today. But the Angevin Empire crashed and burned—and the catastrophic rule of King John is to blame.

King John's reign was an utter catastrophe. It's fitting, then, that when this maniac’s end finally came, it was absolutely gruesome.