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Monarchs of England |
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| In this Period, Albion was divided into various reigneths. | |
| Ruling Houses |
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828 |
Egbert I (775-839) | |
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839 |
Aethelwolf I (Ethelbald kills his brother Athelstan (heir)). | Anglo-Saxon Kings |
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857 |
Ethelberth I and Ethelbald (shared until death, in 860) | Danish Kings |
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866 |
Ethelred I (Ethelberth's brother) (d. 871) | Norman Kings (House of Normandy) |
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871 |
Alfred, the Great (Ethelred's brother, Ethelwulf's son) | House of Plantagenet(Anjou) |
|
899 |
Edward, the Elder (Alfred's son) | House of Lancaster (red rose, from John of Gaunt) |
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925 |
Athelstan (Edward's elder son) | House of York (white rose) |
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939 |
Edmund I, the Elder (also 'the Magnificent', Edward's son, killed 26May, expelled the Norse King Olaf from Northumbria in 944) | House of Tudor |
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946 |
Edred (Edward's younger son) | House of Stewart/d (Stuart) |
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955 |
Edwy (found also as Edwig I) (Edmund I's son) | Civil War - Anarchy - Republic |
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959 |
Edgar I the Peaceful (Edmund's son) | House of Orange - Nassau |
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975 |
Edward II, the Martyr (Edgar's son) | House of Hanover (Brunswick-Hannover) |
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978 |
Aethelred II, the Unready or evil counsel (Elfrida's son, Edward's brother-in-law) | House of Saxe-Coburg (Saxe-Coburg & Gotha) |
|
1014 |
Svein I, Forkbeard (Danish King Sweyn,Harald Bluetooth's son) | House of Windsor |
|
1014 |
Cnut I, also Cnut II, the Great | |
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1015 |
Aethelred II | |
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1016 |
Cnut or Canute the Great (m. Emma of Normandy, Ethelred's widow, Alfgifu of Northampton was his concubine) | |
|
1016 |
Edmund II, Ironside | |
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1016 |
Cnut I, the Great | |
|
1035 |
Hardacnut (only nominally; Cnut's son) | |
|
1037 |
Harald I Harefoot (confirmed before Hardacnut could arrive from Danmark) | |
|
1040 |
Harthacnute I | |
|
1042 |
Edward III, the Confessor (Ethelred's son,William's cousin, m. Edgyth, Edith, Harold II's sister) | |
|
1066 |
Harold II Godwinson (Chosen by the Witenagemot {royal council}, House of Wessex). | |
|
1066 |
William I, the Conqueror (Robert I of Normandy's and Arlette's, a tanner's daughter, son) (m. Matilda of Flanders) | |
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1087 |
William II, Rufus | |
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1100 |
Henry I Beauclerc of Anjou (married Matilda of Scotland) | |
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1135 |
Stephen I of Bois | |
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1154 |
Henry II (Henry's grandson, m. Eleanor of Aquitaine) | |
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1189 |
Richard I, LionHeart (m. Berengaria of Navarre) | |
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1199 |
John I Lackland (reaches the throne and kills Arthur of Bretagne (nephew)) (m. Isabella of Angoulême) | |
|
1216 |
Henry III (m. Eleanor of Provence) | |
|
1272 |
Edward I (m. Eleanor of Castile, m. Margaret of France) | |
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1307 |
Edward II (m. Isabella of France) | |
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1327 |
Edward III (father of the Black Prince of Wales, who obtained the ruby of the royal crown helping Pedro, el Cruel) | |
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1377 |
Richard II (Edward, the Black Prince's son) | |
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1399 |
Henry IV Bolingbroke | |
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1413 |
Henry V (m1º, Catherine de Valois) | |
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1422 |
Henry VI (m. Margaret of Anjou) | |
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1460 |
Richard Duke of York | |
|
1460 |
Henry VI | |
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1461 |
Edward IV (The Duke of York's son) | |
|
1470 |
Henry VI (Edward is defeated by Richard Neville, Earl Warwick) | |
|
1483 |
Edward V | |
|
1483 |
Richard III (murders his nephews Edward V y Richard Duke of York for the throne, is defeated later in battle) | |
|
1485 |
Henry VII (m. Elizabeth of York, joining both houses) | |
|
1509 |
Henry VIII (well known for his six wives) | |
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1547 |
Edward VI | |
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1553 |
Lady Jane Grey (1537-1554) (ruled for 9 days, later beheaded) | |
|
1553 |
Mary I (Famous as Bloody Mary for countless massacres to Protestants) | |
|
1558 |
Elizabeth I | |
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1603 |
James I Stewart (kidnapped by Elizabeth, Mary Stuart's and Lord Robert Darnley's son) | |
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1625 |
Charles I (m. Henriette Marie of France) | |
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1649 |
Civil War (49/59- Cromwell) Commonwealth | |
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1653 |
Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell | |
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1658 |
Protectorate of Richard Cromwell | |
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1660 |
Charles II (m. Catherine Braganza of Portugal) | |
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1685 |
James II (1ºm Anne Hyde, 2º Maria of Modena (of Este)) | |
|
1688 |
Mary II and William III of Orange (shared Mary died in 1694) | |
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1702 |
Anne I (after 17 abortions, she left no heirs) | |
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1714 |
George I of Great Britain | |
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1727 |
George II | |
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1760 |
George III | |
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1820 |
George IV | |
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1830 |
William IV | |
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1837 |
Alexandrine Victoria I | |
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1901 |
Edward VII | |
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1910 |
George V | |
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1936 |
Edward VIII (abdicated to the throne to marry Wallis Simpson) | |
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1936 |
George VI | |
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1952 |
Elizabeth II | |
Note: the names starting with Ae may appear as starting with A and E indistinctly.