I The Plantagenets Dan Jones wrote: Ever since 1156, when Henry II first paid homage to Louis VII, the Plantagenet kings had accepted that in theory they held their Continental lands from the French Crown. But this had remained, broadly, a formalilty. With the Treaty of Le Goulet, John turned it into a feudal reality. In return for Philip's acknowledgement of his rights, John agreed to pay twenty thousand marks as a succession duty.
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