Monarchs of England

In this Period, Albion was divided into various reigneths.  
Ruling Houses

828

Egbert I (775-839)  

839

Aethelwolf I (Ethelbald kills his brother Athelstan (heir)). Anglo-Saxon Kings

857

Ethelberth I and Ethelbald (shared until death, in 860) Danish Kings

866

Ethelred I (Ethelberth's brother) (d. 871) Norman Kings (House of Normandy)

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)

925

Athelstan (Edward's elder son) House of York (white rose)

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

946

Edred (Edward's younger son) House of Stewart/d (Stuart)

955

Edwy (found also as Edwig I) (Edmund I's son) Civil War - Anarchy - Republic

959

Edgar I the Peaceful (Edmund's son) House of Orange - Nassau

975

Edward II, the Martyr (Edgar's son) House of Hanover (Brunswick-Hannover)

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

1015

Aethelred II  

1016

Cnut or Canute the Great (m. Emma of Normandy, Ethelred's widow, Alfgifu of Northampton was his concubine)

1016

Edmund II, Ironside  

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)

1087

William II, Rufus  

1100

Henry I Beauclerc of Anjou (married Matilda of Scotland)  

1135

Stephen I of Bois  

1154

Henry II (Henry's grandson, m. Eleanor of Aquitaine)  

1189

Richard I, LionHeart (m. Berengaria of Navarre)  

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)  

1307

Edward II (m. Isabella of France)  

1327

Edward III (father of the Black Prince of Wales, who obtained the ruby of the royal crown helping Pedro, el Cruel)

1377

Richard II (Edward, the Black Prince's son)  

1399

Henry IV Bolingbroke  

1413

Henry V (m1º, Catherine de Valois)  

1422

Henry VI (m. Margaret of Anjou)  

1460

Richard Duke of York  

1460

Henry VI  

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)  

1547

Edward VI  

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  

1603

James I Stewart (kidnapped by Elizabeth, Mary Stuart's and Lord Robert Darnley's son)

1625

Charles I (m. Henriette Marie of France)  

1649

Civil War (49/59- Cromwell) Commonwealth  

1653

Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell  

1658

Protectorate of Richard Cromwell  

1660

Charles II (m. Catherine Braganza of Portugal)  

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)  

1702

Anne I (after 17 abortions, she left no heirs)  

1714

George I of Great Britain  

1727

George II  

1760

George III  

1820

George IV  

1830

William IV  

1837

Alexandrine Victoria I  

1901

Edward VII  

1910

George V  

1936

Edward VIII (abdicated to the throne to marry Wallis Simpson)  

1936

George VI  

1952

Elizabeth II  

Note: the names starting with Ae may appear as starting with A and E indistinctly.

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