The popular image of John is of a classically bad king: a scheming, untrustworthy coward consumed by greed, whose rapaciousness drove his subjects to impose their will upon him.

• 而约翰在人们心目中的普遍形象就是一个昏君：诡计多端，利令智昏的懦夫，其贪心之甚终导致群起而攻之。