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As King John presided over a feudal system of government in England, he owned all of it. He claimed lordship over Wales and went some way to try and enforce this by insisting on and obtaining the hommage of the Welsh princes in return for them being allowed to remain on their lands in Wales. He tried a similar tactic in Scotland with less success. As for his 'foreign' lands, he claimed to be lord of Ireland but did little about this once he was king in England, he lost the bulk of his paternal lands in 1204 when he lost control of Anjou, Normandy and Brittany to the French king, but held Poitou still.

So, as a recap, at the start of his reign he held Brittany, Normandy, Anjou, Poitou and after the death of his mother, Aquitaine, England and claimed overlordship of Wales and to an extent Scotland. By the end of his reign he really only had any real power over England and a nominally strengthened hold on Wales that did not hold up in practice, and a presence in Poitou that he could do little to exercise.

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