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“The latter came to be called John Lackland because he lost the ancestral territories of the royal family in Normandy and Anjou to the king of France and some of Eleanor of Aquitaine‘s vast domain in Western France as well.“

False. He was called that because as the fourth son, there was no land left for him at first. Henry II wanted to give him Aquitaine but Eleanor and Richard said hell no.